“The initial experience was a shock, a shock to my womanhood,” she said.
The first questions were, ‘Am I going to live?’
I just fell into my husband’s arms.
Marlyne Barrett.Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty
It still takes my breath away when I think about it."
Barrett and her family husband pastor Gavin Barrett and their 11-month-old twins met the challenge head-on.
Her doctors told her she would need aggressive chemotherapy before an eventual hysterectomy.
At work, Barrett was further heartened by the solidarity from herChicago Medfamily.
“I’ve had people shave their heads on set to support me,” she tearfully recalled.
“Interestingly enough, my character on the show already wears a wig!”
she added, noting that work keeps her time and her mind occupied.
and ‘How am I going to hug my children?'"
Barrett intends to keep fighting for her children, whom she expects to see get married some day.
“But we have so much more strength inside of us than we think.”
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