My thoughts and good vibes are with you both.

I am a Retired Nurse and I am very familiar with the Surgery and Recovery process from Mastectomies.

Committment, loyalty and gratitude…these apply to family, friends, Physicians and all the experienced, dedicated to your Health needs.

Your Michel is loyal and filled with love for you…I feel it in his mailings.

You have Family that love and support you with all they can muster…AND
there are so many faces you have never seen who are cheering you on with thoughts and spiritually.

Cancer has no face so there isn’t a need to see our face…just feel our love and hopes for you and Michel…the strength is there with you…

Warmly,
Bonnie

I think you are one brave woman and know you will look cancer right in the eye and not back down until it is destroyed. You have a unique spirit and with Michael and your family’s love and support you WILL make it through and be stronger in the end.

When you told me the news of your diagnosis, I remember thinking how unfair and cruel the whole situation was. You were about to get married in a few days…you needed and deserved to be envelopped in a cocoon of love and happy events to cherish….and then this! These thoughts ran through my head in a flash…and then I shook myself and thought that regardless what this is, it is.

It is not a sentence nor are you a victim. You are a woman I know very well, whom I love and cherish that got dealt a bad card. Having been present during both my paren’t fight with cancer, I remember the negative environment in which my family lived and how the pain was overwhelming at times. But I was projecting on you my past experience with it. I have also been blessed with sharing some positive ones and you are no exception. I made a deal with myself that day…what to hear it?

You do not need my tears or my worry because I KNOW…without a shadow of a doubt, that you will win this battle. You are very much a warrior and have been marching to your own drum for a long time. I am deeply proud of your accomplishments and your heart. You are a success, not because of your career but because you are you. Not plain and simple but beautifully complex and perfect…just as you are!

I would just like to share with everyone a few wisdoms learnt from having shouldered another though this battle. These come from my experiences but I hope they can assist others in remembering what IS important.

I, myself, cannot treat the cancer but I can be a shoulder for the woman and your family. You are not an extension of your cancer but a strong, vibrant, loving woman living with cancer.

There is a difference there and one that does not change you.

You are and will always be; beautiful (inside and out), feminine, human, intelligent, creative, loving, and sexy. That doesn’t change because of what you are living, I feel it enhances it actually. You are ever reminded of the moment. You do not deserve pity as pity is food for others having a hard time living with your news. It is, as I did for a split second, a projection of fear.

It is ok to be afraid or scared and this may be a wonderful opportunity to face something that may be difficult to many. It is not an end but a beginning. One of many more I am sure of. A “lump” in the road as you mentioned. But this lovely lump shall to pass.
Laugh, joke, be positive and you will see that this is not a death sentence but an opportunity to experience a soul at a far deeper level. An opportunity to grow.

To our family, I wish you courage and send you my love.

Michel and Sylvie, you are truly an inspiration. Sylvie, I send you my prayers, positive blessings and my love.

Roxane

May you be Blessed on your healing journey. You are already a cancer warrior and a survivor - because you do not fear it.

As Dr. Mani said: “…The good news: the cancer is beatable… It is a fight you WILL win - keep up the great attitude… YOU, Sylvie, most definitely are a WINNER!”

When you are diagnosed with cancer, you have options… You have will, imagination, powerful natural body’s abilities within you that you can stimulate by using your emotions, mind and its creative healing imagery… Let all your happy memories and love that surround you create a shield and help you fight the cancer.

“The miracles are ready - if our mind be-so.”

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May our prayers Bless You,
Sylvie, with love and health
for these are the
true measures of
joy and wealth.

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May our Prayers grant you lightness in your step,
a smile on every face you meet,
Loved ones gathered at your hearth,
and at your door, good friends to greet.

A happy smile upon your lips,
a window candle burning bright,
And may our Prayers bless your
Heart and come to dwell there
days and nights.

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May your friends’ love and prayers be the sentry
that stands guard over your health and shield it from
all harm, and may our Blessings sent your way,
sustain and help you win the battle with cancer!

By all our Prayers may you be blessed today.

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There’s the joy of hope in all our blessings
and prayers sent for you,
There’s love and friendship,
There’s a touch of magic, too.

There’s a hope that love and laughter
Will steal your heart away
And a prayer that all you’re wishing
God grant you and yours
Today, and next Monday,
September the 11th … and always.
And may you be blessed
during all your healing path.

May our Blessings keep you safe, and May our
Prayers keep you strong and stop the harm.

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(Edited and adapted from Irish Blessings for Sylvie Fortin,
a Lover, a Wife, a Mother, a Goddess, a Warrior and a Victor)