re: Lara Logan ex CBS, Fox decorated journalist- We are lying about Ukraine on an epic scale

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FROM: 10 things you didn't know about Lara Logan

She was sexually assaulted in 2011
Being a journalist will take you to various places to interview victims, but in some instances, you wind up being the victim. It happened to Lara in 2011 when she was in Cairo where she had gone to report on the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s government. The celebration turned bitter when more than 200 men tore off her clothes and raped her over and over with their hands. As she revealed to The Washington Post, her saving grace came in the form of an Egyptian woman who helped her escape.

She still suffers from health issues from her sexual assault
By 2015, Lara had made four hospital visits connected to complications arising from her sexual assault. In 2017, Lara opened up saying that she continued to have pelvic pain due to a hysterectomy that did not heal. Lara noted that since the attackers used flagpoles, hands and sticks, the muscles in her body also experienced traumatic stress that had to be treated by a specialist. Further, as Lara was raped, she held on to her bodyguard, Ray, and did not let go until the ordeal was over. Due to the extended period of clasping her fingers, Lara has arthritis in her right hand, which she treats with periodic steroid injections.

She was diagnosed with cancer in 2012
Life kept serving Lara with all sorts of challenges that most people would not have lived through, but she is a strong woman. Barely a year after the Cairo incident, Lara was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a trying time for the mother of two whose children were 1 and 2 then. She almost gave up, but her sister told her it is okay to feel depressed and cry it all out. That was all the encouragement that Lara needed to manage the six weeks of radiation, although, by 2017, she was still in remission.

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