Susan Stamberg
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Podcast Appearances
And I just wanted to move that quotient of stress out of my life and do less, and I did.
I told family, of course, and a handful of really close friends, and only a few people here at NPR who I felt needed to know.
No, I had a lumpectomy and radiation.
Yeah, I was working all through that, actually.
It was a salvation through that time.
I felt I needed to keep working.
Work has been important to me at a lot of rough times in my life, as it is for many of us, I think.
That's not me.
Long pause.
The most compelling thing you can do on the radio.
Keep quiet.
So you didn't โ people did not need to know.
No, I didn't.
I wasn't ready to do that to people, and I wasn't ready to handle their reactions to it.
I'm a bucker-upper.
It's part of my nature.
I like to make people feel better.
I'm the one that, in the All Things Considered days, when the program was being put โ marked up on a big map on the wall โ
I'd come in, that would start at 2.30, the order of the pieces and who was going to be reporting what.