FACE IT

When I was diagnosed, my greatest enemy was fear. Fear of my family, friends and co-workers treating me differently; fear of pain and suffering, fear of dying and yes... plain old fear of the unknown. I beg of you ... do not fear communicating with others about your concerns. Silence is a friend to breast cancer. You can gain strength from joining a support group. 


FIX IT

With research and education, I faced my fears and I gained strength each day. My experience with breast cancer brought me together with women who have survived for thirty years or more. I also met men, (yes, men), and women, like myself, who were new to the process of surgery and treatment. What I have learned is that the medical world has advanced by leaps and bounds in the area of breast cancer detection and treatment. The survival rate is very high ...the key is to FIND IT early and FIX IT. 

HAVE FAITH

"The Lord is my Shepard..."

You don't need to think the same way I do, but it's OK to believe in a power stronger than yourself. For me it's Jesus Christ. I have a relationship with the Lord that has been a great source of strength and healing for me.  If you have a relationship with a Higher Power, please pray for me and all of us who need the extra strength.

And I ask you to have Faith ... true Faith that no one is alone in this fight. The fight against this enemy ... this disease ... this breast cancer.... together, we can beat it!

Fund it

Money is crucial to the fight for a cure. I invite you to visit some of the links I have listed to help support the research that can save lives. Find ways to help...donate time, donate money ...get educated!

http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/ - The National Breast Cancer Foundation mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need.

http://www.standup2cancer.org/ - Join a community of massive propotions in a campaign called Stand Up To Cancer which is aimed at raising funds to accelerate cancer research as well as uniting the American people and building awareness for the significant advances in cancer treatment.

http://www.nci.nih.gov - NCI leads a national effort to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer. Through basic and clinical biomedical research and training, NCI conducts and supports research that will lead to a future in which we can prevent cancer before it starts, identify cancers that do develop at the earliest stage, eliminate cancers through innovative treatment interventions, and biologically control those cancers that we cannot eliminate so they become manageable.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ - Click on the "it's FREE" button and help fund free mammograms for women in need — low-income, inner-city and minority women whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited. Your click is paid for by site sponsors, and mammogram funding is provided to clinics throughout the U.S. through the efforts of the National Breast Cancer Foundation .

Finally....
People who know me, know that I am a positive force in life.
Breast cancer is a negative force. I plan to fight it. I will do anything I can to expose this enemy who comes shrouded in a cloak of dark fear, silence and ignorance to steal our lives away. When my own loved ones, young, intelligent women told me that they wanted to know more about how to defend themselves from this disease, my deep personal fears began to melt away, and my goal became clear to me: to reach out to my family and friends on a one-to-one basis. It will not be a fancy or decorative plea, but I pray that it will be useful, to find it, face it, fix it, and have faith!

Thank you for caring....  

Paulette Smith (Ms. P.)
A Survivor since May 1999
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