Friday, October 16th, 2009
!–paging_filter–pIn early October, cancer survivor Rosalind Beard finally got to meet the man she credits with saving her life./p
pAt Loyola University Medical center’s annual bone marrow transplant celebration, the 40-year-old woman met up with Tim Crawford of Adairsville, Georgia, who donated stem cells for her 2007 transplant./p
pBeard, a mother of four, told the Chicago Sun-Times she wanted to thank Crawford personally for his gesture, which also gave her a href=http://www.guideposts.com/faith-living?lid=BFT target=_selffaith and hope/a to keep fighting her cancer./p
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Over the past several years, many people have been inspired by the real-life story of Lance Armstrong’s success at beating cancer.
But just as inspiring as his personal history is the Tour de France champion’s campaign on behalf of others who are living with cancer.
Armstrong told USA Today he receives hundreds of messages per day from cancer survivors and their families, and he tries to respond to as many as he can.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
While battling two separate bouts of cancer, Deborah Marqui found refuge in her garden.
Now, she regularly shares her personal sanctuary with others who may be looking for inspiration.
Marqui, who is cancer-free from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 1996 and in remission from breast cancer since 2002, created the two-acre Healing Gardens at Stone Hill Farm in St. Charles, Illinois.
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
!--paging_filter--pDavid Hebert, a 16-year-old junior varsity quarterback from Houston, Texas, lay in a hospital room last fall, eagerly awaiting a visit from Kevin Everett, his football hero. Hebert had snapped his neck trying to make a tackle, paralyzing him from the waist down. When Everett, a 6-foot-4 former Buffalo Bills tight end, who lives in nearby Humble, strode through his doorway, Hebert was almost lost for words. ldquo;I want to become like you one day,rdquo; he said./p
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I gazed at the blank paper on my easel, listening to the birds outside my window.
Sometimes it was that moment just before I put brush to canvas that was hardest. Besides, this was an important painting, a gift for people who had helped me through one of the toughest times in my life. It had to be exactly right to show them how I felt.
I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer a few months before and it changed my whole life. There was so much to go through: consultations, surgery, radiation.
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Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Gazing at my haggard visage in the bedroom mirror that morning in 1991, I didn’t know which was worse—the way I felt or the way I looked.
In a sense they were one and the same, each a reflection of the other. I had just undergone a punishing round of chemotherapy following a double mastectomy for breast cancer, and doctors had warned me that I would probably have to undergo a second round.
I looked decades older than my 33 years. My skin sagged and my face was ashen. Dark circles shadowed my sunken eyes.
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Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
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