Breast Cancer DIY

Hi, I’m Marion, and this is Pico!

 

I am an 8 year survivor from 3 types of breast cancer (all stage 3) with lymph node involvement.  I was the facilitator for our local Breast Cancer Group (So. CA) for about 2 years, and then decided to do more one-on-one counseling of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, referred to me by my surgeon, oncologist, and friends.  Now you are all going to be my friends, too!

 

This website was a dream of mine, and I’m glad you are here.  Please know that no questions are too stupid, no feelings that you are experiencing are new to this fight we have been waging.  I look forward to talking to all of you, and doing what I can to help you through your journey with surgeries, chemotherapy, radiation, and all the rest, plus getting on with your life when the treatments are done.  Best wishes to all of you, my “boob sisters” and “boob brothers” (we can’t forget the men who also have breast cancer, although they are in the minority of about 1% - they need our support, too).

 

I hope you benefit from the information and many links provided here.  These have helped me, and I hope they help you, too. So if you have a certain link or information you’d like to share, please contact us and we will try to include it here for others to see and learn from.  Thank you for visiting.

 "The purpose of life is not to be happy.
It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate,
to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I walk to honor and support my beautiful wife Joyce (JAG), who was diagnosed in January of 2007 with stage IV breast cancer.
I walk so that my daughter and her daughters hopefully will never have to worry about breast cancer.
I WALK for all those who have bravely
fought against breast cancer and won.
I WALK for the thousands who are just beginning the fight.
I WALK for those beautiful souls who battled so hard
and now look down on us and smile.
I WALK for me and
I WALK for YOU!
Atlanta, Georgia
Don't count the days...Make the days count!
http://jagsangels.webs.com/

This Mother’s Day (2008), I participated in Y-ME’s Walk to Empower 
[ Tulsa OK ] because I want to ensure no one faces breast cancer alone
and to pay a special tribute to my grandmother, Gladys Cravatt-Greenwood, my cousin Tabitha. Also for my wonderful, crazy Aunt,
who just found out she has Breast Cancer.  Go to:  Christal 

 Because I Live, Love, and Laugh!
My fight continues.
Jill / Clovis, California
To view her tesitimonial: click here

 

Carolyn is Joining Us!

I would like to thank all of you for your love, prayers and actions that have supported me in the past several months as I have undergone treatment to retard the ravages of this cancer. 

If it were not for everyone’s support I doubt I would have done as well as I have. 

 

Just when I began to feel down or overwhelmed I would get a card or message from one of you encouraging me on and helping me realize how far I have come.

 

Please read Carolyn's story on the "Testimonials" page.

Carolyn was interviewed on 60 Minutes television program June 8th - Watch it now.

Breast cancer does not discriminate. 
It touches women in all areas of life.
Carolyn is an inspiring woman!
We hope she inspires you, too.

I'm Karen - this a favorite quote, I hope you like it, too:

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends
on our dispositions and not our circumstances" 

 

 

For Diana, New Bedford, Massachusetts
"When you change the way you look at things,
The things you look at change!"
-Wayne Dyer

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