LeBeth Carr was my best friend, my sister from another mother, she was one of the best people I have ever met. She loved without abandon. She carried the breast cancer genes and was in her early thirties when the lump was found by self testing and cancer was first diagnosed. She fought with the heart of a warrior and beat it (even though it took the doctors and the insurance system in Fort Lauderdale months to do the mastectomy and begin treatment), double mastectomy, lymph nodes, chemo and rads...it came back three years later with a vengeance and she passed away in her late thirties. This is the custom one of kind tattoo I had done weeks before she passed.... she loved butterflies. The text is her signature. Everyday that I'm out in public someone comments on the tattoo and I have to opportunity to beg them to do self checks and to petition their insurance companies and senators to make genetic testing and prophalactic measures covered by all insurance. It is sad that we live in one of the most technologically advanced financial powershoused nations in the world and women like LeBeth can't afford to have the genetic testing or imaging done nor pay for prophalactic measures. Would it have saved her if they would've come off BEFORE the mass developed? We'll never know. My goal is to see that no woman, anywhere, ever has to go without these life saving measures. I miss her so much, she was a beautiful soul.

Jennifer Williams
Oskaloosa, IA