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IN OCTOBER, METEOROLOGIST
GARY BANDY SHARED WITH OUR
VIEWERS THAT HIS WIFE DORIS
WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST
CANCER. IN TONIGHT'S FREEMAN
BUDDY CHECK 16, WE SHOW YOU
HOW THEY ARE GETTING THROUGH
THIS JOURNEY TOGETHER.
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G8 "You're there
in sickness and in health,
you're their partner, you're
there for them, that's the
commitment that you chose to
make." GARY BANDY MADE THAT
COMMITTMENT TO HIS WIFE DORIS
CARLIN 26 YEARS AGO. AND THIS
PAST SEPTEMBER, THAT
COMMITTMENT WAS PUT TO THE
TEST WHEN DORIS WAS DIAGNOSED
WITH BREAST CANCER. "I was
just doing a regular monthly
Buddy Check if you will and I
said this is not normal." A
MAMMOGRAM SHOWED IT WAS A
TUMOR. BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL
AFTER THE RADIOLOGIST
CONFIRMED IT WAS CANCER THAT
DORIS TOLD GARY ABOUT THE
DIAGNOSIS.G2 "She's aware of
my history and my family
history, I have grandparents
who died of cancer, my mother
died of cancer." AND BECAUSE
OF THEIR DIFFERENT
BACKGROUNDS, THEY EACH HAD A
VERY DIFFERENT REACTION TO THE
NEWS.NATS "And I said but you
have cancer and she says NO I
DON'T!!"D9 "I don't even think
of myself as having cancer. I
just believe when my time
comes, my time comes, that's a
God thing, that's not for me
to decide and so I don't worry
about it."G3 "I was very
concerned, I was much more
concerned than Doris was,
again this is not my first
cancer rodeo." THEY ALSO HAD
THEIR OWN APPROACH TO FIGHTING
THE CANCER.NATS "Tornadic
storms moving off toward the
east."G5 "It's the same
mechanism I use in a sever
weather situation. I know that
sounds insane, but it's
true.You look at the facts,
you address the facts in as
good as a way you can and you
go for the best possible
outcome."D5 "I've had an
attitude for a long time that
I don't live in fear about
things, I live in faith."
DORIS BECAME A PATIENT
ADVOCATE AND AFTER A LOT OF
RESEARCH, SHE AND HER DOCTORS
FORMED A PLAN OF ATTACK.D17
"My treatment option was to do
chemotherapy first and shrink
the tumor so that if the
cancer returns I know what
kinds of chemo my body reacts
well to." SINCE SEPTEMBER,
DORIS HAS UNDERGONE FOUR
ROUNDS OF CHEMO. NEXT WEEK
SHE WILL HAVE A LUMPECTOMY,
FOLLOWED BY FIVE WEEKS OF
RADIATION. DESPITE ALL THE
CHANGES SHE'S EXPERIENCED, THE
ONE CONSTANT THAT'S GOTTEN
THEM BOTH THROUGH THIS TIME,
IS THEIR COMMITTMENT TO EACH
OTHER.D11 "He has been very
caring and he's gone with me
to every single appointment
and when I was really sick, he
was with me every single
second." G8 "Reflect back on
the vows that you made when
you were married, if they were
good and they were real,
there's nothing to it, it's
easy you want to be there, you
want to be able to show that
commitment."#########
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