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Partners Support Speech at the Lodge Friday 21st October 2011
Hello to everyone , Here is a copy of my speech from Friday . I hope that partners can see that our stories are all similar in some way , but we all take a different journey Life before breast cancer our story Liz and I have known each other since we were 8 years old. Our paths had crossed over many years but we had no…
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Friday @ the Lodge
WOW the flights have just been sent to us and now we are almost ready to go. I have nearly finished my speach and will be talking again tomorrow with Amanda @ BCNA to finalise last minute things. I will be great for others to hear of the support that partners need and also to be able to help others that dont have a voice…
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Media attention
Well guys we are getting alot of local media attention for BCNA and our visit to the Lodge, Broken Hill's paper even ran an article on Liz and I, and a photo with Georgie in it. I am so proud to be apart of this visit.
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supportive friend
I have a friend who is having breast enlargement surgery today. I think she is very silly and it has made me think about young women and there attitude towards body perfection. Before i had my mastectomies i used to always wear a push up bra and revealing clothes. I proudly wore a bikini to the beach, i loved my body. I…
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Tribute Services in October in Melbourne and Sydney
Thank you to all for attending the Tribute Service yesterday in Melbourne-an uplifting and healing time followed by afternoon tea. The Sydney Service is coming up on Sunday 23 October and we are requesting a representative of BCNA to light a candle or to stand for a short reading during the ceremony. We would love to hear…
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Single Mums With Cancer
Hello, My name is Soly (AKA Smiley) i wanted to share with everyone a new group i have started, "Single Mums With Cancer". Its a online group for single mums to connect and supprt each other following a diagnoses of cancer.
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Please help my friend win a $100,000 Wedding
Hi Ladies, Hope everyone is well? Just wondering if you could help my friend have her dream wedding? Please Vote for my friend Jessica Day and her Fiance Matt Gomes to win a $100,000 wedding. She is currently in 2ND PLACE. Please vote for her as there is only a couple of days left to vote (closes midnight Wednesday). 1.…
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Stage 2 breast cancer
My name is David and I lost my beloved Wife suddenly on July 11 2011 to Secondary cancer. We were very close and to lose someone in their early fifties is so sad. What is so hard is nothing was prepared for this or expected. The doctors were shocked. What I can say is please organise your afffairs and pray they are not…
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Husband not coping
I am not coping with my husband not coping!! He has become really angry and refuses to talk to me about things. He says I am putting far too much pressure on him and the kids but I don't understand how. He told me to back off. He has started swearing at me in front of the kids which is really not like him at all. He is…
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Help, Mother-in-Law going overboard!
Hi Ladies, Just hoping some of you can give me some tips on how you have coped with family (in my case the Mother-in-Law) giving you all different concoctions to take to build up the imune systems etc etc. I know she is only trying to help, but since being diagnosed last month she has bombarded me with info on the…
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passed
Hi everyone, yesterday was my turn to see the oncologist and, boy,. was it quick! The appointment was for 3.00pm but I didn't get called until after 4.00 and I was out and in the car by 4.25.....and the car was parked up the hill in the street! She asked me if everything was OK, checked the scar, said "right, you can get…
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R.I.P. JACKIE
Sadly this week we lost a member and friend Jackie Pridmore. formerly from jamieson late of hole beach spaldinglinks England. Jackie went home to be with family and to have treatment in England , sadly the treatment didnt work and we lost her last monday. 4th july those of us that knew Jaqckie were shocked and saddend by…
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My Story
Hi everyone my name is Clayton.I was married for 23 years got divorced and then met my new partner.After 12 months into the relationship she found a lump on her right breast.Then with 5 surgeries, numerous radition treatments and heaps of chemo she passed away in Jan of this year.With 4 years of being a full time carer I…
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My Story
My partner happened to come accoss an odd bump on my left breast as we were cuddling one night on the couch. No funny business I promise :) It was quite firm, so he insisted I see a doctor about it. I was hormonal and due for my monthlies so thought nothing of it. Two weeks passed my period came and gone and my breast…
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The meaning of caring
Hi I do feel much like samoua but my wife has been a low profile cancer sufferer and she came from gynocological cancer to skin, breast and bone so quite a few years have have spent as a carer. I think people underestimate the role of carers and indeed we cases even alienated. To me cancers are cancers no matter where they…