10/28/2019
In October, we wear pink!
I was honored to be a part of a survivor celebration by Empower at Beacon Cancer Care in Coeur d' Alene on Friday. We've all lost someone to cancer, and if you haven't, statistics show you will. I look forward to the day those statistics are no longer a reality, and the fight for a cure has been won!
For me this event was personal. In 2003, my mother was diagnosed with a variety of complications, but a brain surgeon had explained to me that sometimes breast cancer metastasises to the brain. In this case, the brain cancer was triaged to attempt to save her life, unfortunately she passed 9 months after her brain surgery.
In 2007, my grandmother passed from her second diagnosis of breast cancer.
I don't know a lot about Beacon Cancer Care and their program Empower, but for the last couple weeks that I have worked with them they are enlightened, excited and wonderful people. They are truly a beacon of HOPE and EMPOWERMENT for individuals that have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Technology, scientific advances and a great team of people demonstrate how life doesn't stop after diagnosis, and neither should you.
