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We're at the University of Louisville at the Brown Cancer Center having our 16th annual
Cancer Survivors' Celebration. This is a place where people can come, they're with people
who have been through the same experiences, they understand how it feels to have your
life threatened, to go through treatment, and they feel like they're in the company
of people who understand. And then this year we're featuring a lot of our art therapy projects
where people express themselves through art, in keeping with the theme of the Pegasus Parade
which is fund for the arts. -In June I'll be a 3 year breast cancer survivor,
and in July I'll be an 18 year malignant melanoma survivor. And it makes me appreciate things
more, I have my grandsons over there and really it lets me love him more.
-I did yearly mammograms and they caught a mass in the month of, I believe it was August
of 2012, and I had a lumpectomy and they got it all out. And I just thank God that I survived,
cause if I hadn't've done my yearly mammograms I wouldn't have known. So mammograms are a
good thing. -We're twins, and she had cancer first about
16 years ago-"17 years."-oh 17 years ago she had breast cancer, and I had it 6 years ago.
My daughter just got through running her third Boston Marathon, Rhonda K. Braden and I'm
so proud of her. She just finished her third one, I'm so thankful to be alive to see her
do that. -People here are just really loving, they're
just the greatest people around. They really keep you focused on your journey while you're
going through breast cancer. -When we're out in the community, people will
come up to me and say, "oh you're from the Brown Cancer Center, you all saved my life".
And those are the things you're so happy to hear because that's when you know face-to-face
you're making a difference in the lives of people in Kentucky.