Lisa Limpy Just

A mother and soldier’s battle with breast cancer
By Clara Caufield
Native Sun News Correspondent

ASHLAND, Mont –– Earlier this year, Lisa Limpy Just, a Northern Cheyenne woman in her forties, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, finding herself caught in the controlled chaos that comes with that, In her case treatment has included a mastectomy, radiation, lymph node removal, chemo and related medication in the bid for recovery.

Lisa recently shared her views about being a breast cancer “survivor” – not a victim. Breast cancer, she said runs in her family. Her mother Cora Spotted Elk succumbed to it in 2004 and an older sister also was afflicted; now recovered but still dealing with the after affects.

“Still, I never thought it would happen to me,” she said.

An Army Veteran, Lisa served in the Panama Just Cause Campaign and in the El Salvadorian civil war, living in North Carolina, Bogota, Columbia and then Texas, where she raised a family, away from the reservation for more than twenty years. After returning in 2008, she is now a corrections officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, currently on medical leave, though still occasionally reporting to work when feeling up to it.

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(Clara Caufield can be reached at acheyennevoice@gmail.com)

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