Local pharmacy helps women battling breast cancer

October is breast cancer awareness month, and a local pharmacy in Rexburg stands-out as a sanctuary and a place for women with breast cancer to find comfort.

“After ladies have had their mastectomy then they come to us and we fit them with a prosthetic to replace the breast that they had removed so that they can feel normal and beautiful again,” said Colleen Passey, mastectomy fitter.

The Medicine Shoppe is known as a local pharmacy, but to the women in Idaho who’ve come here with their struggle of breast cancer, this place is a safe haven.

Patricia Bryan is a pharmacy technician there, but she was also a previous patient who was able to find refuge and takes away an experience that she believes could also help others.

“After any type of breast surgery there is a defiant period of depression and when getting fitted for breast prosthetic brings back all the emotions from that surround diagnoses of cancer,” said Bryan. “Both of the women here were very professional and very caring. The setting that they do their fitting in is to make you feel at ease, and it does. They were very concerned about my comfort and my privacy and about my dignity when they were doing the measurements and estimate for my fittings.”

The room is designed to inspire visitors to recognize their beauty and sets a tone that this is a place where they can speak freely with a friend, not just a room to receive medical counseling.

They offer a verity of prosthetics and bras that come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

If you would like to know more about their fitting, go HERE.