Mother with breast cancer banned from going into her daughter's school because the principal says she SMELLS too bad



A mother with stage 4 breast cancer has decided not to attend her daughter's school Thanksgiving after the principal initially banned her because of her smell.

Kerri Mascareno was personally told by the Tierra Antigua Elementary principal that she could not step foot in the building because her smell was disturbing his employees.

'He just said he knows this is going to hurt my feelings and he understands where I’m coming from because 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,' she told local Albuquerque station KOB4.



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Insult to injury: Kerri Mascareno was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in August and has been treating the tumor with chemotherapy, which sometimes results in a distinctive smell

Kept away: Her daughter's school principal said that Ms Mascareno is not allowed to go inside the elementary school building because it is making his employees ill

Though not all breast cancer sufferers report a smell, many have reported a distinct odor coming as a result of their body's reaction to the chemotherapy.

Ms Mascareno told the local news station that she understands it can be overpowering at times, but it is something she has had to deal with since being diagnosed with the advanced case of the disease in August.

When the principal, Robert Abney, had this conversation with her in person last week, his words were not the only way that he made his feelings known, but through his actions: he told her to keep moving away from the school even though she went outside to wait for her daughter.

'He just said that he would have to ask me to sit in my car because he could smell me through the window,' she said.

Heartbreaking: Ms Mascareno got emotional during the interview, saying that it was terrible to be told she cannot be with her daughter when other mothers and fathers are invited

Bad call: Principal Robert Abney has since changed his stance and said that she would be allowed to attend the school's Thanksgiving lunch but she and her daughter would have to eat in his office and not with the others

Dealing with the issue: Even though he changed the offer, Ms Mascareno (seen here with her daughter Lynsey) says that she will not attend because of the way he handled the situation

He has since changed his stance and told Ms Mascareno that she was welcome to join her daughter for the school's Thanksgiving meal like the other parents, but she was still not given the same access.

Rather than eating with the whole group, she and her daughter Lynsey would have to eat their meal in his office.

'For someone to say you can't be with your child... it's really hard,' she told KOB.

Ms Mascareno is undergoing chemotherapy and she and her doctors plan to be agressive with her treatment in order to get her as much time with her three daughters as possible.

'They’re the fuel that keeps me going,' she said.

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