Comments on: Did You Just Say “Breast Cancer”? http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/ Diary Of A Breast Cancer Survivor's Healing Journey Sat, 29 May 2010 14:10:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=5426 By: Leonore Dvorkin http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-15142 Leonore Dvorkin Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:56:32 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-15142 Nov. 13, 2009 / Denver, CO Dear Sylvie, I'm not even sure who first told me about this site, but I'm glad I found it. My very best wishes to you for future good health! Stay strong. Thanks to all the rest of you who wrote, too, with such caring messages. Those are very important to cancer patients. I'm now 63, and had a left-side mastectomy (no reconstruction) in 1998, at the age of 52. The experience was so significant and life-changing for me -- mainly in good ways -- that I wrote a whole book about it. That book has now been re-issued. It's ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIFE: A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR'S JOURNEY (Norilana Books, 2009), by Leonore Dvorkin. It will also come out in Spanish in 2010. The paperback is only $9.95, and just $8.95 to Barnes and Noble members on www.bn.com. I hope you will check it out. It covers my personal medical details, the emotional benefits I gained, my philosophy on dealing with any of life's larger crises, and much more. It also contains some 40 pages of appendices that cover risk factors for breast cancer and a lot more. Details are on my website: www.dvorkin.com You can see the cover (I took the cover photo), my photo, review quotes, excerpts from the text, and more. Thanks to all who read my message, and good health and happiness to all of you! Nov. 13, 2009 / Denver, CO
Dear Sylvie,
I’m not even sure who first told me about this site, but I’m glad I found it. My very best wishes to you for future good health! Stay strong. Thanks to all the rest of you who wrote, too, with such caring messages. Those are very important to cancer patients.
I’m now 63, and had a left-side mastectomy (no reconstruction) in 1998, at the age of 52. The experience was so significant and life-changing for me — mainly in good ways — that I wrote a whole book about it.
That book has now been re-issued. It’s ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIFE: A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR’S JOURNEY (Norilana Books, 2009), by Leonore Dvorkin. It will also come out in Spanish in 2010. The paperback is only $9.95, and just $8.95 to Barnes and Noble members on http://www.bn.com. I hope you will check it out. It covers my personal medical details, the emotional benefits I gained, my philosophy on dealing with any of life’s larger crises, and much more. It also contains some 40 pages of appendices that cover risk factors for breast cancer and a lot more.
Details are on my website: http://www.dvorkin.com
You can see the cover (I took the cover photo), my photo, review quotes, excerpts from the text, and more.
Thanks to all who read my message, and good health and happiness to all of you!

]]> By: Daniel http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-15139 Daniel Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:53:19 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-15139 Sylvie, I was wondering if you might be willing to promote a great cause in your blog. It is an innovative fundraising effort intended to raise $3 million for cancer research, called “The Big Bundle”. ABC News just covered this initiative… http://bit.ly/ABC_News_TheBigBundle Cancer affects nearly everyone, yet in economic climate, people are finding it difficult to donate. TheBigBundle.com makes it easy for everyone to do his or her part. In return for a $29.99 donation, consumers get $700 worth of freebies. Consumers get products (e.g., TrendMicro AntiVirus, Zagat, Snapfish, etc), services (Skype, GoDaddy, TripIt, etc), and discounts (Hotels.com, Gap, Lancome, Nordstroms, etc) from 32 companies. If you could write about this, it would surely help the cause! Thanks Sylvie, Daniel Sylvie,
I was wondering if you might be willing to promote a great cause in your blog. It is an innovative fundraising effort intended to raise $3 million for cancer research, called “The Big Bundle”.

ABC News just covered this initiative… http://bit.ly/ABC_News_TheBigBundle

Cancer affects nearly everyone, yet in economic climate, people are finding it difficult to donate.

TheBigBundle.com makes it easy for everyone to do his or her part. In return for a $29.99 donation, consumers get $700 worth of freebies. Consumers get products (e.g., TrendMicro AntiVirus, Zagat, Snapfish, etc), services (Skype, GoDaddy, TripIt, etc), and discounts (Hotels.com, Gap, Lancome, Nordstroms, etc) from 32 companies.

If you could write about this, it would surely help the cause!
Thanks Sylvie,
Daniel

]]> By: Janna http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-15051 Janna Tue, 06 May 2008 12:27:38 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-15051 Good afternoon, Силвия!!!!! You the heroic woman! I up to depth of soul was shaken with your self-control in this situation. The god will necessarily renumerate you to optimism and skill to be sensitive and to other women who can appear in the same situation. You do very much an important issue! I have learned about you casually, studying materials of your husband about a copyright. Also I write to you because it is admired by you and your business!!! Continue to write even when absolutely recover! It is necessary for people! To Maine call Jeanne, I from Russia and at us in the country a problem of a cancer of a breast cost also sharply as well as all over the world. In my life there is one vivid example connected with this disease. The sister of my mum was ill with a cancer of female bodies and after химеотерапии and various procedures, the doctor has told to relatives what to live to it remains about six months. But the aunt with it is not agreed, at it character was such. It continued to live usual, very intensive life of the simple Russian woman. And illness as though was frightened... Also has receded. Doctors did not trust it, but the aunt has lived 27 more years and has died of an old age in the age of 87 years And I trust, that if the person continues to live thinking not about illness, and that ahead still is a lot of years of a life, and this life so is necessary to many people. The Soviet writer Nikolay Ostrovsky has very well told about it: " the Most dear at the person is a life. It is given to it once, and to live it it is necessary so that was not painfully sick for aimlessly lived years that did not burn down a shame for подленькое and the petty past and that, dying, could tell: all life and all forces have been given to the finest in the world - to struggle for clearing of mankind " Happiness to you and the health, dear!!!! Excuse if it is written стилистически not precisely, I to the shame do not know English language. Good afternoon, Силвия!!!!!
You the heroic woman! I up to depth of soul was shaken with your self-control in this situation. The god will necessarily renumerate you to optimism and skill to be sensitive and to other women who can appear in the same situation.
You do very much an important issue! I have learned about you casually, studying materials of your husband about a copyright. Also I write to you because it is admired by you and your business!!! Continue to write even when absolutely recover! It is necessary for people! To Maine call Jeanne, I from Russia and at us in the country a problem of a cancer of a breast cost also sharply as well as all over the world. In my life there is one vivid example connected with this disease. The sister of my mum was ill with a cancer of female bodies and after химеотерапии and various procedures, the doctor has told to relatives what to live to it remains about six months. But the aunt with it is not agreed, at it character was such. It continued to live usual, very intensive life of the simple Russian woman. And illness as though was frightened… Also has receded. Doctors did not trust it, but the aunt has lived 27 more years and has died of an old age in the age of 87 years And I trust, that if the person continues to live thinking not about illness, and that ahead still is a lot of years of a life, and this life so is necessary to many people. The Soviet writer Nikolay Ostrovsky has very well told about it: ” the Most dear at the person is a life. It is given to it once, and to live it it is necessary so that was not painfully sick for aimlessly lived years that did not burn down a shame for подленькое and the petty past and that, dying, could tell: all life and all forces have been given to the finest in the world — to struggle for clearing of mankind ” Happiness to you and the health, dear!!!!
Excuse if it is written стилистически not precisely, I to the shame do not know English language.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-15017 Jennifer Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:40:18 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-15017 Hey! You have a brave story and thank you for sharing it. As a community, we can all help out and make a differences. Especially now that it is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, we can all do our small part. Contribute to a charity, volunteer for an organization, help friends and family, go that extra mile! I donated some money to my favorite BC organizations at Respectance, which fortunately has no service charge, and I encourage you all to help in any way possible. This is the month to take a step out of the door and do something positive that will make us all feel better. Hey! You have a brave story and thank you for sharing it. As a community, we can all help out and make a differences. Especially now that it is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, we can all do our small part. Contribute to a charity, volunteer for an organization, help friends and family, go that extra mile! I donated some money to my favorite BC organizations at Respectance, which fortunately has no service charge, and I encourage you all to help in any way possible. This is the month to take a step out of the door and do something positive that will make us all feel better.

]]> By: Sister Study http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14996 Sister Study Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:35:01 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-14996 How would you like to make a difference in breast cancer research? The Sister Study needs your help to determine if breast cancer is caused by something women come in contact with at work, at home, in their communities or in the personal products they use. The Sister Study is looking for 50,000 women to help discover the environmental and genetic causes of the disease. Women ages 35 to 74 are eligible to join if their sister (living or deceased), related to them by blood, had breast cancer; they have never had breast cancer themselves; and they live in the United States or Puerto Rico. ENROLL TODAY or simply help spread the word to women in your community! Either way, you can help find the causes of breast cancer!! For more information visit www.sisterstudy.org or www.estudiodehermanas.org. Call toll-free 1-877-4SISTER. Deaf/Hard of Hearing call 1-866-TTY-4SIS. How would you like to make a difference in breast cancer research? The Sister Study needs your help to determine if breast cancer is caused by something women come in contact with at work, at home, in their communities or in the personal products they use.

The Sister Study is looking for 50,000 women to help discover the environmental and genetic causes of the disease. Women ages 35 to 74 are eligible to join if their sister (living or deceased), related to them by blood, had breast cancer; they have never had breast cancer themselves; and they live in the United States or Puerto Rico.

ENROLL TODAY or simply help spread the word to women in your community! Either way, you can help find the causes of breast cancer!!

For more information visit http://www.sisterstudy.org or http://www.estudiodehermanas.org. Call toll-free 1–877-4SISTER. Deaf/Hard of Hearing call 1–866-TTY-4SIS.

]]> By: Evelyn Khoo http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14982 Evelyn Khoo Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:06:59 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-14982 I am also a breast cancer survivor...your site is very helpful and inspirational .. I am looking forward to a new day every night..Life is now great after the long and tedious fight against my bc.. I can't believe myself that I am a proud dragon boat rower at my age.I will most certainly visit your site when I am online.God Bless. xxxx...Evelyn I am also a breast cancer survivor…your site is very helpful and inspirational .. I am looking forward to a new day every night..Life is now great after the long and tedious fight against my bc.. I can’t believe myself that I am a proud dragon boat rower at my age.I will most certainly visit your site when I am online.God Bless.

xxxx…Evelyn

]]> By: The Power of Pink -image- Blog to Survive http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14889 The Power of Pink -image- Blog to Survive Sun, 27 May 2007 03:23:15 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-14889 [...] “Hi, my name is Sylvie and this is my breast cancer survivor story. Initially therapeutic, I soon realized how telling my story inspired so many in creating breast cancer awareness. If it’s your first time here, read my first post to appreciate my story. “Click here to r [...] […] “Hi, my name is Sylvie and this is my breast cancer survivor story. Initially therapeutic, I soon realized how telling my story inspired so many in creating breast cancer awareness. If it’s your first time here, read my first post to appreciate my story. “Click here to r […]

]]> By: Leah http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-14859 Leah Mon, 07 May 2007 21:23:32 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-14859 Hi Sylvie I came across this site as I was nosying at your hubs webspace which I came across while nosying at someone elses. I'm a member of his CW board. You are a brave lady, one of many who have contributed their stories here. I had a near brush with cervical cancer myself May last yr. Fortunately it was Pre-cancer not cancer cancer. Check-up annually now for 10yrs. I wrote a blog (far back in the archives) on www.myspace/theoryofr, you and the ladies here may relate to called 'Fear of death- who do you talk to'. It's something I couldn't really share when I was 'in it' but as you say the writing helps a lot to externalise those feelings and keep them at a nice safe distance. Anyway, I wish you and your family all the best, and take it easy. Leah x Hi Sylvie

I came across this site as I was nosying at your hubs webspace which I came across while nosying at someone elses. I’m a member of his CW board.

You are a brave lady, one of many who have contributed their stories here. I had a near brush with cervical cancer myself May last yr. Fortunately it was Pre-cancer not cancer cancer. Check-up annually now for 10yrs.

I wrote a blog (far back in the archives) on http://www.myspace/theoryofr, you and the ladies here may relate to called ‘Fear of death– who do you talk to’.

It’s something I couldn’t really share when I was ‘in it’ but as you say the writing helps a lot to externalise those feelings and keep them at a nice safe distance.

Anyway, I wish you and your family all the best, and take it easy.

Leah x

]]> By: Brandee Adler http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-2/#comment-10484 Brandee Adler Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:54:59 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-10484 Hi Sylvie- I’m so glad I found someone who has the same attitude as me - I received my diagnosis on my son’s 6th bithday, December 21, 2006. I have had my surgery, have started radiation & should start chemo in a few weeks. (I’m in a couple of studies on early-stage BC which is why my radiation is first). I have 3 kids of my own & can tell you that I have absolutely no time at all to give to this disease. I will not even give it the time of day. I don’t know where you are from (your name sounds like you could be from Montreal??) If you are, please e-mail me back - it would be nice to have a woman friend who I can share this with! Good luck!! Hi Sylvie–
I’m so glad I found someone who has the same attitude as me — I received my diagnosis on my son’s 6th bithday, December 21, 2006. I have had my surgery, have started radiation & should start chemo in a few weeks. (I’m in a couple of studies on early-stage BC which is why my radiation is first). I have 3 kids of my own & can tell you that I have absolutely no time at all to give to this disease. I will not even give it the time of day.
I don’t know where you are from (your name sounds like you could be from Montreal??) If you are, please e-mail me back — it would be nice to have a woman friend who I can share this with! Good luck!!

]]> By: Bandee Adler http://www.breastcancervictory.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-10483 Bandee Adler Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:53:22 +0000 http://www.breastcancervictory.com/2006/08/09/did_you_just_say_breast_cancer/#comment-10483 Hi Sylvie- I'm so glad I found someone who has the same attitude as me - I received my diagnosis on my son's 6th bithday, December 21, 2006. I have had my surgery, have started radiation & should start chemo in a few weeks. (I'm in a couple of studies on early-stage BC which is why my radiation is first). I have 3 kids of my own & can tell you that I have absolutely no time at all to give to this disease. I will not even give it the time of day. I don't know where you are from (your name sounds like you could be from Montreal??) If you are, please e-mail me back - it would be nice to have a woman friend who I can share this with! Good luck!! Hi Sylvie–
I’m so glad I found someone who has the same attitude as me — I received my diagnosis on my son’s 6th bithday, December 21, 2006. I have had my surgery, have started radiation & should start chemo in a few weeks. (I’m in a couple of studies on early-stage BC which is why my radiation is first). I have 3 kids of my own & can tell you that I have absolutely no time at all to give to this disease. I will not even give it the time of day.
I don’t know where you are from (your name sounds like you could be from Montreal??) If you are, please e-mail me back — it would be nice to have a woman friend who I can share this with! Good luck!!

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