Posts Tagged ‘Life’

Breast Cancer Survivor Talks About Life In Remission

www.myfloridacancer.com Breast cancer survivor, Cindy Ulrich, has spent an inspirational 25 years in remission. She’s a legend at Tampa Bay Cancer Center, making a career of helping other cancer patients. Watch her story and learn more about how Tampa Bay Cancer Center treats the whole patient. People like Cindy help give you strength to survive and thrive after cancer.

Run For Your Life

A documentary I made the fall of 2007. About the life of a breast cancer survivor, marathon runner, and mother.

I Run For Life- Barb’s Story

Breast cancer survivor shares her story through a collage.

Platinum Life: Werna du Preez (Breast Cancer)

Werna du Preez is a 44-year-old breast cancer survivor who lives in Kempton Park, Gauteng. She’s married with two children and two stepchildren. Werna says there was a day when she went for a mammogram, when the young lady who was going to do the mammogram asked her why her nipple was drawn in, “I don’t know.”, she replied and when she touched her breast she says it felt “hard as a rock”. She says that because her breast was so hard and big, a mammogram could not be done. The doctor told her that if her breast was still the same after two weeks then she must come back in the new year so that a sonar can be done. Werna and her family went away for vacation. However, there was no improvement in the condition of her breast. The whole time they were worrying about her condition and as a result they decided to come back home earlier than planned in order to go for the sonar. On the 8th of January a biopsy was immediately done and sent away for testing. It came back and she was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. She then visited her oncologist who told her that they have to immediately start the chemotherapy. “They postponed it a week though, so that I could quickly get married” Werna says candidly. A week after her first chemotherapy she and her husband went on their honeymoon. They came back a week later for her second chemotherapy, she says that her awful moment came when her hair started falling out twelve days later. She continued with four more chemo’s which ran …

“I’m going to be a patient at Fox Chase for the rest of my life” by Margaret Zuccotti

Stage IV breast cancer survivor, Margaret Zuccotti, shares her experience at Fox Chase. She detected her lump while nursing her 3rd child. After traveling to Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York for a diagnosis, she was told that Dr. Lori Goldstein at Fox Chase Cancer Center would be an excellent choice for care. Margaret is an athlete, a mom, a wife and a cancer patient.