Beloved Mom Blogger Succumbs to Breast Cancer
Dr. Susan Niebur, astrophysicist, mother, wife, and blogger known as @whymommy among her digital friends lost her battle to cancer yesterday. Niebur died from inflammatory breast cancer.
In her last post written on January 22, 2012 on Toddler Planet Niebur said:
How did we get here? I asked my love, across the bed strewn with children’s toys, books, and an oxygen tank.
We got here because of your amazing strength, commitment, and love for your family that you have shown since you were diagnosed – almost 5 years since diagnosis, 4.5 years since we were afraid it would end, 3 years after most IBC patients make it, all because of you. The medical details don’t matter. Our life has been a nonstop adventure.
Her husband, Curt Nieber, announced the news of Susan’s passing on her blog in a good-bye post.
Susan Niebur passed away on February 6, 2012 after a lifetime of love, crusades, and strength. Over the last five years she lived with inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer that presents without a lump. She chronicled her life with cancer here on her blog Toddler Planet with honesty and emotion that were even more rare and aggressive.
He requested to further Susan Niebur’s legacy to donate to the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation or to “please choose to make a difference somewhere, anywhere, to anyone.”
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