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Although never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Bonny Diver’s horse gave her the best gift of all—the gift of a second chance at life. Bonny Diver is a well-known radio personality in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2003, she fell off her horse and broke her shoulder. While inspecting the damage, she happened to discover a robin’s egg-sized lump on her breast. “It put me in shock because every woman is warned about a “lump.” That means cancer, and cancer means death.”
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Yogesh Pathak and his daughter Jhanavi are trying to make a substantial difference for those facing cancer. Both know first-hand how emotionally, physically and financially draining a cancer diagnosis is for both the patient and the caregiver. Born out of a teenage daughter’s love for her father and a father’s resolve to beat the odds, Jhanavi and Yogesh have created the soon-to-be 501(c)3 non-profit, The War on Cancer Foundation.
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The morning of August 23rd, 2010 started as a beautiful summer day. Terry’s mom, Terry, and Terry’s little sister Alayna were in Ohio visiting family and were only twenty minutes into their six hour drive back to their home in West Virginia when they collided head-on with another vehicle at fifty-five miles-per-hour.
After surgeries on Terry’s spleen, spine, and abdomen, Terry was in the ICU room of Toledo’s Children’s Hospital for over a week before he was told that he was now paralyzed from the waist down. Terry went through shock …
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When Bart Saidel of Cherry Hill, NJ was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the Fall of 2005, family and friends offered unending support to Bart — a devoted husband and father of three children, senior account executive, and soccer/baseball coach — as he faced chemotherapy and surgery. Close friends even shaved their heads.
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The story of my friend, Lynn Lynum, begins in High School when he was shot twice in the back in a drive-by shooting and was given three days to live. As he lay there dying, Lynn prayed that God would heal him. Shortly thereafter, he was released from the hospital.
The day Lynn graduated from High School his parents packed his bags and told him that he was a man now and had to provide for himself and that he had to find a job and his own place to live. “I did not like that they did this to me, but what could I do?” said Lynn. So at 18 with no place to live and no source of income or food, Lynn went to live with an Aunt for about a month until he could get into campus housing at Cal Poly Pomona, CA. Lynn was his Aunt’s favorite nephew and he credits the incident as a character building experience. “It made me what I am today, a man that can stand on his own.”
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What separates 28 year old Jessica, however, is one immense blemish that would be hard to miss if you walked by Ms. Cox: she was born without arms. Prenatal testing did not show any birth issues, but when she came out, she had only two limbs. What may have been a disaster of a life to some soft-minded people became a life-long challenge that Jessica determined to beat. She said, “Desire is 80 percent of success. Persistence means never give up. Never allow your fear to stand in the way of your opportunity.”
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When Annabel “Bella” Sclippa was seventeen, a car accident snapped Bella’s spine, leaving her confined to a wheelchair. Her life then became a history of overcoming obstacles that would be difficult, even for someone who could walk. Instead, her afflictions trail behind her sunny demeanor and intelligence like so many flower petals on a mountain path. Born in Southern France, her time’s been divided between Europe, Africa, China, the USA, and the South and Central Americas.
After her accident, Bella embarked on an 11-year quest for a Bachelor’s degree. Her …
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Lori grew up on a grain farm in rural Saskatchewan. She has always been governed by innate bravery and was the only girl who raced her snowmobile against the men and she loved to work alongside her parents. She suffered two accidents in her teens that would dictate her winning spirit for the rest of her life. When Lori was 15, she was in a single-vehicle roll over accident and thrown from the pickup. The impact crushed her shoulder and pelvis and required long, determined hours of rehabilitation. Because …
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Julie Ann has defied the odds to become an accomplished artist and a wonderful wife and mother. There’s nothing confined about artist Julie Ann Mills-Testi. Not her bold mouth brush strokes, her passion for “dancing” through her art or her…
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She sits quietly now. She says only what she needs or wants to say. She often confesses, in fragmentary frustration, “too difficult now”; too difficult to adjust her position on the chair, too difficult to apply lotion, too difficult to carry on a lengthy conversation. Still, the message of her soul is clear. I am a fortunate witness to her message. I have known Monessa Tinsley-Crabb for two years now.
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