Our Health
DAY 2: Breast Cancer Journal
Arriving at Grove City on this hot summery day and with an entourage of family and friends, we came to watch four crazy men.
Those four included my son, my husband, his father and my husband’s brother. The task at hand was for these four to sky dive that day, and it was going to be covered by The Meadville Tribune.
It was at that time then that two of the Tribune’s finest had come to document the story, and during that time I was approached about any interest I would have in being part of a women care presentation/article they were doing for the paper.
Since I was admittedly lacking hair and having the waxen look of the southern belle, I knew it was in regard to my cancer treatment.
I am not a retiring creature by any means but it did take me back a step until I realized I could probably help others through my story.
I am not the only person to walk this walk with breast cancer, nor would I be the last. I decided to commit to this purpose and to open myself up to whatever would lie ahead to get education and awareness and understanding of what the face of breast cancer looks like.
Maybe there was something I could do from the sidelines for now.
The three generations of my husband’s family did make the jump, the irony was that my husband was the one who was sick and I drove home and tended to his needs. It wasn’t me this time.
This was the start-over 4 years ago of an ongoing dialogue and continuation of this project with many starts and stops, and now today as a breast care educator, the subject is open and I am sharing a story that started March 11, 2005.
May it be of benefit to you in some small way and may you know you are never alone in this triumphant walk — for whatever you do or whatever may come, know that you are triumphant and a winner for being in this walk.
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DAY 31: Breast Cancer Journal
Final personal thoughts by Sue Kilburn, whose Breast Cancer Journal ran each day this month.
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DAY 30: Breast Cancer Journal
Life will never feel or look the same. I often talk to patients that have cancer at various stages: just diagnosed, in the midst of treatment, returning for follow-up, recurrence. There is an overriding theme for all of us: The journey is never over!
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DAY 29: Breast Cancer Journal
Life will never be the same
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AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Surviving Breast Cancer
Sue Kilburn of Meadville was diagnosed in 2005 with Breast Cancer. A lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation was the treatment dor her and approaching five years later, she is still cancer - free. Kilburn has shared her story here and will each day this month with a short story on her life with and after cancer. See that story in the Our health section of our website.
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DAY 28: Breast Cancer Journal
Well, I have been in my new position for two months now and for everything I start I expand on and develop 10 more areas that I want to work with, for and learn.
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DAY 27: Breast Cancer Journal
Once I was a listener and now I am involved.
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