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Were you there? We made bracelets … we hung with sister survivors … we loved the tunes from Heart and Soul … and we proved that life after cancer can be even MORE than life before!
Enjoy these photos – and stay tuned for our next Tucson Girls Night Out![/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”2009,2010,2011, 2012,2013,2014, 2015,2016, 2017,2018, 2019,2020, 2021,2022, 2023,2024″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
My darkest moment wasn’t the cancer itself so much as having to share my diagnosis with my closest family members. In some ways, I was embarrassed to say the word leukemia. I worried that people would feel sorry for me or worry that they would lose me to the disease.
For me, that summer of my despair became the summer of my determination, because I believed I could make a difference in the lives of others.
Have you ever seen that greeting card with a little girl on the front, standing tall, legs splayed open hands on her hips that reads, “She thought she could so she did.”
As a Michigander, I claimed this quote from Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or your can’t, you’re right.” I thought I could and I did, and you can too.