{"id":9452,"date":"2017-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.rftcjapan.org\/pickup-article\/what-she-did-moments-before-surgery-was-awesome-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:00:00","slug":"what-she-did-moments-before-surgery-was-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rftcjapan.org\/en\/pickup-article\/what-she-did-moments-before-surgery-was-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"What She Did Moments Before Surgery Was Awesome."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Woman Was About To Go In For Surgery. What She Did Moments Before Was Awesome.<br>By Lori Leibovich, The Huffington Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Facing a double mastectomy with grace takes courage. Facing one with courage and joy is extraordinary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that\u2019s exactly what Deborah Cohan did yesterday right before she went into surgery to have her breasts removed. Cohan, an Ob\/Gyn and mom of two, held a dance party with her medical team in the operating room of Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/06\/breast-cancer-flash-mob-deborah-cohan_n_4227915.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Article<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Woman Was About To Go In For Surgery. What She Did Moments Before Was Awesome.By Lori Leibovich, The Huffington Post Facing a double mastectomy with grace takes courage. Facing one with courage and joy is extraordinary. 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