New Mexico cancer patient barred from daughter’s school because of her "smell"

[Contrary1]

As a breast cancer survivor, I am beyond disgusted.

"A New Mexico woman has been banned from her daughter’s school because the principal is allegedly concerned about her smell, KOB-TV reported on Wednesday.

“He just said he knows this is going to hurt my feelings and he understands where I’m coming from,” Kerri Mascareno explained to KOB. “His mother had breast cancer and she had the same exact smell and I can no longer be in the school and that with me being in the school that I made his employees ill.”

Mascareno, whose daughter attends Tierra Antigua Elementary in Albuquerque, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in August, and is currently taking medication to shrink the tumor enough for it to be surgically removed. She told KOB that Tierra Antigua principal Robert Abney informed her she wasn’t allowed on school grounds and, during the same conversation, asked her to sit inside her car “because he could smell me through the window.”

Abney refused to discuss the encounter with KOB, referring a reporter to Albuquerque Public Schools for comment..."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/14/new-mexico-cancer-patient-barred-from-daughters-school/

[TDale313]

1. So, so wrong.

[Eleanors38]

2. That principal should catch a whiff of my bathroom. The water is off for repairs.

He should plug his nose and breathe through his mouth. Come to think of it, he should his mouth, too.

[chillfactor]

3. I am also a breast cancer survivor....

and this incident makes me sick at heart....a woman struggling to survive and a school and principal who deny her access to the school becuase she "smells"......how much longer will this woman be able to interact with her child....good god sounds to me like the adminsitration in this school could use some education on cancer and its patients and medical treatment....

[struggle4progress]

4. "Mascareno says she got a call late Wednesday afternoon from the principal inviting her

to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in the cafeteria with the rest of the school"
Principal tells mom with breast cancer she can’t visit kids’ school
by Maria Guerrero, KOB
9:51 am on 11/14/2013

[struggle4progress]

5. Mother stricken with cancer doesn't go to Thanksgiving dinner at school

Created: 11/14/2013 6:27 PM
By: Jorge Torres
KOB Eyewitness News 4
Tierra Antigua Elementary had their Thanksgiving lunch today in the school's cafeteria, but because of what happened last week, Kerri Mascareno and her daughter Lynsey decided to spend the day relaxing at home together ...
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3218857.shtml?cat=500

[DreamGypsy]

6. Principal Abney needs to become familiar with the Order of the Good Death...

... ya know, Bob, we all die. Our bodies decay. As various diseases progressively kill us, they cause various transformations... with various olfactory consequences...in our physical beings. These changes don't necessarily reflect on our value as fellow human beings. In fact, these changes may provide an educational opportunity for understanding how death is an integral part of life.

Let me introduce you to the Order of the Good Death. Caitlin and I are alumni of the University of Chicago. Caitlin is a mortician. Please try to accept the "smell" of Kerri's cancer; someday soon, your friends and family may need to accept the smell of your corpse poo:

[zazen]

7. wow! great site! this is so necessary n/t