The Shop for the Cure has been closed up and packed up. It was another successful 5 weeks of sales, building awareness, making new friends, seeing old friends, giving support, getting support..... I get a little sad when we close it all down, knowing that there are some people I won't see for another year.
There are about 50 volunteers who make the "Shop" a success. Of those 50 volunteers, 50% are survivors. The rest of us have someone in our lives who is a survivor.
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This Sunday, when we were working at the Shop for the Cure, we were discussing the friends and mutual steering committee members we had lost to this terrible disease.
We talked about Daryl Silver - I think of her whenever my peonies bloom. Her daughter had them at her wedding, and she always talked about the beauty of that flower.
We talked about Jan Zimmerman, who was the impetus of the Shop. I remember when we even had a "Wrap" for the cure over the holidays. J
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"If every cancer is as evil as the one that took my mom I will fight them all!" I said to my fiance as he asked me, "Are you sure you want to do this?" with Mother's Day being just 3 short months after having my daughter and losing my mom all within a day of them meeting each other. "Yes, I want to start a team" I said. And so Renee's Renegades was formed as a way to remember, heal and hope for a cure. I spread the word and my small family group turned into 32 w
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I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in Aug. 2006 after the initial shock. I went ahead and had a lumpectomy followed by chemo and radiation. In 2007 I wanted to walk in the Race for the Cure, but I wasn't feeling up to it so I decided to volunteer the morning of the race, and experience the survivor ceremony. I was so blown away by the whole experience that when I left that day I made a vow to myself that I would make a difference.
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I was working at the Shop for the Cure yesterday. A young man walked up to the kiosk, and I smiled at him, said hello. He said, "I buried my wife today. She fought hard. She was 28." Then, his young daughter walked up with her grandmother, and told me, "My mommy died." Her grandmother pointed out her young grandson, who had also just lost his mother. It was all I could do not to sob. I did cry, and could hardly get a word out. It makes me so angry that children are losing their mothers to thi
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My sister Marsha was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. She passed away in 1999. My other four sisters and I took care of her at home the last month of her life, so she could be at home, surrounded by everything familiar. She was my best friend. I was 32 years old when she was first diagnosed, so I went in and had my first mammogram. Every year since then, I have had a mammogram. In Sept. 2009, I was due to have my next mammogram. I was very stressed, as w
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The question is asked, "Why do you volunteer?" Initially, I had two reasons for volunteering at the Shop, but over the years, those reasons have multiplied. I have met so many wonderful women who have been touched by breast cancer. Unfortunately, I've lost a few, but I've also seen many women beat the odds. I hope to highlight stories about each of them as this blog develops.
The first reason I got involved was my college roommate, Sue Pearson. She was diagnosed at 29, with no
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It is that time again! "The walk". My goodness, just a month more and I will celebrate my 76th birthday, just 6 weeks after celebrating our 54th wedding anniversary. Little did my family realize I would be here to celebrate these mile stones. But myself and others like me have been blessed with the doctors that strive to save us, and the drugs that cancer research provides us.
I have a passion for life. And I have a passion for a cure for cancer. My former oncologist and his wife have
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I have been noodling over how and where to start this blog for weeks. I think it was 13 years ago, when I was wandering through Southdale Mall, that I came upon the shop. My mother had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and I stopped in for a little support and for some of the great mercha
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