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Fallon adds Dr. Alexander
Fallon Clinic has announced the addition of Dr. Rani Alexander to its medical team.
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Question by Dave: "In studying how to die, we will know how to live." Meaning?
Taken from the book, "After Breast Cancer, A common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment" by Hester Hill Schnipper.

Here is the rest of the quote:

"We have to think about how we want to live and we have to think about how will will someday want to die. All of us should discover how to live so we will know how to die. Equally essential, in studying how to die, we will know how to live."

Comments are welcomed.

She is an oncologist who has had breast cancer and has lead many assistance groups and have had very close members of the group die. As she has witnessed their struggle in cancer's final stages she states that this is what truly matters.
Here is an additional excerpt from her book:

"The truth is that we are all afraid sometimes. An additional part of the truth is that we find methods, often in community, to assistance 1 an additional and to face the fear. I facilitate a weekly group for woment who have metastatic breast cancer, and I am regularly awed by their courage and their grace in accepting me as an equal partner in their journey.
Becoming with them helps me to imagine that I, too, can live with this challenge if it comes to me. There is a deep comfort in this. As the women in this group often say, we discover from 1 an additional that there are WORSE Issues THAN DEATH, and we discover how to meet death when we should."

Question?

What could be worst than death?

Only factor I can think of is an unfulfilled life, how about you?

Greatest answer:

Answer by MEL.
Hi Dave,

Thank you for the update on becky, polyps are very common and thousands of people are walking around with them not even realizing they have any. I am sure it will be ok...truly, I'm not just saying that.

I think the quote indicates that when faced with feasible death we re evaluate our lives and realize the things that are most essential to us and our loved ones and having had that experience if we are given a second chance we find that it has taught us how to live our lives the way we know we want to rather than the way we think other people anticipate us to.

What is worse than death??? Nicely I suppose death is our escape from discomfort, worry,illness, and so on: So she is saying that death is better than long days in agonizing discomfort or unending worry. That's the only way I can interpret it.

Love and hugs to you each.

Mel.XX

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Strongsville Individual of the Week: Dr. Ahmad H. Shatila
Strongsville resident Dr. Ahmad H. Shatila has been honored with the Emeritus Staff Award for his 34 years of service at Southwest Common Medical Center in Middleburg Heights.
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Ann Fry's We Are Booming Project Selects Whitegate PR as Agency of Record
Ann Fry's We Are Booming Project selects boutique public relations firm Whitegate PR as their agency of record. The We Are Booming Project is an independent, New York-based initiative with national appeal, which aims to raise the voice of the "baby boomer" and continue to change the globe.
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Toronto hospital expands accelerated breast cancer therapy plan
Because the clinical plan began in 2006, 550 patients have gone through the expedited process, which uses a rapid tissue processor to analyze samples from biopsies. Results are ready within hours.
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Anchorage, AK (PRWEB) December 19, 2005

In her 6th year of survival, Melissa Buhmeyer can look back and tell you a thing or two about breast cancer.

“I clearly remember the words, “You have breast cancer.” Those four little words changed my globe in the course of two seconds. I was 39 years old, had been married for only a year, had a 12-year-old daughter, and was scared to death. Over the subsequent year and a half, I had two mastectomies, chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, and radiation to each sides of my chest, with a Stage IIIa invasive lobular carcinoma, 8 of 10 nodes positive, and a 40% opportunity of surviving five years. That was six years ago.

I desperately wanted to hear from somebody who had been down the road I was about to travel, somebody who could give me hope for a life after breast cancer therapy. The focus of this website is to bring breaking breast cancer news, articles, and survivor experiences together in 1 location. Everyone requirements a location to start in the information gathering procedure of making decisions about therapy; decisions which are, quite literally, the most essential ones of their lives.

Our aim is to encourage input from breast cancer survivors, visiting the website, so they can encourage those who, are in many cases, facing the darkest moments of their lives. By having an information repository combined with first hand perspectives, we hope to fill that void.” says Buhmeyer.

Breastcancer-therapy.us encourages the submission of stories from other breast cancer survivors. The authors can chose to be anonymous, if they wish, or receive full credit. User-submitted experiences are then posted to a dedicated portion of the website, added to the write-up rotation, and broadcast over the daily-updated RSS feed.

“While we have an huge quantity of information on the website already, it will be the survivors who visit and contribute to the website who ultimately become the greatest resource to the newly diagnosed,” Buhmeyer said.

The website is now open to the public and can be found at: http://www.breastcancer-therapy.us

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Question by Dave: "In learning how to die, we will know how to live." Meaning?
Taken from the book, "After Breast Cancer, A common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment" by Hester Hill Schnipper.

Here is the rest of the quote:

"We have to think about how we want to live and we have to consider how will will someday want to die. All of us must discover how to live so we will know how to die. Equally essential, in learning how to die, we will know how to live."

Comments are welcomed.

She is an oncologist who has had breast cancer and has lead numerous assistance groups and have had extremely close members of the group die. As she has witnessed their struggle in cancer's last stages she states that this is what really matters.
Here is another excerpt from her book:

"The truth is that we are all afraid sometimes. An additional component of the truth is that we find methods, often in community, to assistance one another and to face the fear. I facilitate a weekly group for woment who have metastatic breast cancer, and I am regularly awed by their courage and their grace in accepting me as an equal partner in their journey.
Being with them helps me to imagine that I, too, can live with this challenge if it comes to me. There is a deep comfort in this. As the women in this group often say, we discover from one another that there are WORSE Things THAN DEATH, and we discover how to meet death when we must."

Question?

What could be worst than death?

Only factor I can think of is an unfulfilled life, how about you?

Best answer:

Answer by MEL.
Hi Dave,

Thank you for the update on becky, polyps are extremely common and thousands of individuals are walking about with them not even realizing they have any. I am sure it will be ok...really, I'm not just saying that.

I think the quote indicates that when faced with possible death we re evaluate our lives and understand the issues that are most essential to us and our loved ones and having had that experience if we are given a second opportunity we find that it has taught us how to live our lives the way we know we want to rather than the way we think others anticipate us to.

What is worse than death??? Well I suppose death is our escape from discomfort, be concerned,illness, etc: So she is saying that death is better than long days in agonizing discomfort or unending be concerned. That's the only way I can interpret it.

Love and hugs to you each.

Mel.XX

Add your own answer in the comments!