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Leoma Lovegrove: After cancer surgery, Matlacha artist is painting again and feeling positive
Leoma Lovegrove knew something was wrong — despite what her doctor told her.
The popular Matlacha artist says her left breast had been hurting for months.
But an ultrasound, a mammogram and other tests showed nothing.
“I was told to go home and come back in six months,” Lovegrove says.
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“But I was my own advocate, because I just knew there was something wrong.”
After a November vacation, Lovegrove returned home and began pushing for more tests.
“I went to France for a week and came back and then I demanded an MRI,” she says.
“And that’s when all hell, pretty much, broke loose and we were on the fast track. And within 10 days, I was having the surgery.”
The MRI revealed her worst fear: She had a tumor in her left breast, and it needed to be removed immediately.
Doctors diagnosed it as lobular breast cancer, a less-com