I am sorry. It has been a while since I have posted. Life gets busy in a hurry. Family, fundraising projects, sewing. I forget about blogland. I apologize.
But I am back with another story.
Vonda Huddleston is one of the first people I met when I moved to Idaho. She worked in the Walmart sporting goods department. She is just the sweetest lady you would ever want to meet. It doesn't take you long to figure out that fighting breast cancer is important to her.
Now I know why. Here is her story in her words.
my Name is Vonda Huddleston and here is my Story.
Early detection saved my life. In Novemebr of 2013, when I turn 58 I will celebrate 26 years of being breast cancer free because of early detection. I am blessed to be alive. A simple concern over what I thought was a beauty mark on my breast in 1987, saved my life. A visit to my doctor revealed that it was pre-cancerous(Stage 0) and I was able to have it removed without recieving any chemo or radiation treatments. My doctors worked effortlessly to make sure my insurance would cover annual mammograms , since I was only 32 at the time. God Bless those doctors. I am alive today because of them. I cannot say the same for some of my friends and family. I walk to honour them and their brave struggle through treatment. There memory lives on in every step I take.I walk to celebrate my friends and family who have survived as I have, and praise God for the blessing of life. Thank goodness for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the grants that that they provide, so that women like me with no insurance can continue to get annual mammograms. Life is sweet,and new joys come every morning when I can praise God that I am still alive.
Early detection is the key. It saved my grandmother and it saved Miss Vonda.
A mammogram funded by Komen costs them only $120. I spend more than that every time I fill the truck up with gas. A little bit goes a long way. Will you help save a life today?
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