Celebration of Life: 5K Walk/Run
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Featured Survivor Stories
The Difficulty of the Journey Turns Out to Be The Blessing. The year of 2010 was a difficult year for me. I watched my mother’s health decline to daily losses and indignities. Watching my mother suffer was heartbreaking. In October, I went for my annual mammogram and was informed I missed a year. Following the examination professionals told me they saw something unusual. I rationalized, that no one in my... Read the full story here through Unconditionally Her.
#WhatTheCluck. Why did the chicken run across the road? This chick ran across the road to outrun her cancer. Seriously. My story began at age 30 with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. At 48, it was high blood pressure. At 53, type 2 diabetes. But at 57, Endometrial Cancer? When my doctor told me that, I HAD to ask: “What the cluck is endometrial cancer?” Turns out, it’s NOT a rare cancer. It’s the 4th most common cancer among women… Read the full story here through Unconditionally Her.
An Unexpected Champion. It was Blizzard Jonas…the Blizzard of the century. I got stuck on a business trip in Washington DC to launch a 3-year national project to improve women’s health locally. There were no flights back to Nashville for at least 4 days. Making lemonade out of lemons, my colleagues and I decided to walk to Walmart to get snow supplies that every southern girl needs to survive a blizzard: peanut butter (for protein); Benadryl (for Read the full story here through Unconditionally Her.
A Knitted Knocker Poet. I’m the lady who came to church on crutches, then wearing a wig AND who can’t sing a lick! I fell from a ladder, shattered my leg, endured three surgeries and a blood clot. (I wasn’t as young as I thought I was!) Eight months later a nurse seeing me on crutches blurted, “Oh you have that, too!” My physician confirmed I had right-sided breast cancer. I underwent a mastectomy with reconstruction, tattoos, and chemotherapy. Two years later I was diagnosed with…Read the full story here through Unconditionally Her.
