{"id":205,"date":"2012-08-14T04:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turningheadsproject.org\/?p=205"},"modified":"2013-07-26T17:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:11:35","slug":"betty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turning-heads.org\/betty\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was my 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0cancer (or 4 if you count a melanoma) that I have most recently survived. Two were unrelated breast cancers\u2026one lumpectomy and 10 years later a bi-lateral mastectomy. \u00a0This time it was lung cancer, which I can happily say I am now 1-year cancer free.<\/p>\n

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My outlook has always been to take each day as it comes and be happy that at 81 I can still work every day at an occupation I love\u2026surrounded by friends, family and wonderful colleagues. I do know how to “whine”\u2026but it won\u2019t help me and no one wants to hear it\u2026.so why waste my energy.<\/p>\n

Losing my hair was another thing to take in my stride\u2026as there was no alternative\u2026but I do have a suggestion. I wish someone had told me to do. Before all your hair is gone, have your eyebrows and eyeliner tattooed on. Between no hair on my head and on my face I looked like a space alien \u2026.so even on days when I was home alone I would pencil them on.<\/p>\n

Take heart \u2026.the best is yet to come !!!!<\/p>\n

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