Friday, August 27, 2010

8.27.10 Idelle Davidson of YourBrainafterchemo.com

Being faced with a cancer diagnosis is hard, so is the treatment. Every cancer survivor has side effects from chemo,but what if they continue long after treatment is over? Idelle Davidson is a breast cancer survivor and author. She discusses chemobrain, some of its symptoms, what you can do to help manage it and how it affected her in her book http://www.yourbrainafterchemo.com


Friday, August 20, 2010

8.20.10 Eric Galvez of Masskickers.org

Imagine following your dream of becoming a physical therapist only to need one yourself. Thats what happened to Eric Galvez, he was diagnoses with a meningioma, a brain tumor. Fortunately for Eric it was benign, but he had to give up his dream of being a physical therapist and start the road to recovery. During this time he wrote a book called "Reversal, when a therapist becomes a patient" and wanted to give back to help others so he started an organization to help other brain tumor and brain cancer patients called http://www.masskickers.org


Thursday, August 12, 2010

8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer.org

When Kathy Betz first started bike riding for charity she had no idea that soon after her mother would be diagnosed with breast cancer. Wanting to help her mom and the local women in the community she founded http://www.bike4breastcancer.org.

8.12.10 Kathy Betz of Bike4BreastCancer

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org

Deloris and Mark Bailey - When Deloris and Mark Bailey's son Brandon was diagnosed with cancer when he was 4 years old they wanted to give him something that would make him feel at ease when he was at the hospital. They gave him a chemo bear and told him that everything he goes through the bear will go through too. That was 6 years ago and Brandon is in remission. Deloris and Mark want to give all children diagnosed with cancer a chemo bear and that is why they started www.friendslikeus.org

Deloris and Mark Bailey of Friendslikeus.org