Alison Stanley
September 11th, 2007
I will never forget, it was one of those wonderful snowy days on the east coast in the fall of 2004, and the doctor called and said it was indeed Stage Three breast cancer with a 9 centimeter tumor. It was surreal, because I remember looking out and seeing how peaceful it was, how calming, yet knowing I had such turmoil inside. It was really devastating. You panic and you sort of feel out of body for a while, and then you will yourself back into your body and say, what do you do now? It wasn’t until months later, but eventually I really took it onto myself to really understand what these drugs were about.
I wanted to know why things were happening to me. You get a networking system of those of us who have cancer, and you find out that having the will to live is not just going to have the tumor out or shrinking the tumor. It’s about understanding all the little things that do happen to your body during treatment. It’s not necessarily about finding that immediate pill or that cure, but about going through the whole process. But when you put all that information together with the right medicine, it’s all about finding the empowerment, the transformation that can happen, it’s really quite wonderful.Even now, we find out everyday about people who have no funds, or they do not know where to go or what to do. It’s devastating to think that in this day and age, even with as much information out there with the Internet and these great organizations, there are still people who don’t know. It’s important to get the information out there.
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