Breast Cancer Wellness

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The winners will have their colored page included in this new upcoming coloring book, Inspirations for Breast Cancer Survivors: Coloring Designs to Awaken the Healing Hero We need your colored page and entry form to be received in the Deerfield Beach office no later than August 1, 2017. Mail this entry form along with your colored page to: Health Communications, Inc. Coloring Contest Attn: Kim Weiss 3201 SW 15th Street Deerfield Beach, FL 33442 Or submit your entry through the form below

In May of this year DailyWorth.com reporter, Julia Sonenshein, wrote “a 2009 study in Pharmacoeconomics estimated people with breast cancer could pay between $20,000 and $100,000 in co-pays, depending on their health care coverage, length of treatment, type of care, and other variables. A 2104 story in The ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncologists) Post, reported 37% of cancer survivors surveyed experienced a financial or work-related hardship and said they had to make at least one work modification due to a cancer diagnosis. My early stage disease spared me from the ravages of chemotherapy, but the loss of my income and the cost of a COBRA health insurance premium of $1200 a month, ravaged our financial health. Nandita Kera, MBBS, MPH Division of Hematology/Oncology, MayoClinic, Phoenix, AZ wrote in the September 2014 Journal of Clinical Oncology, “ If we, as a profession, believe that financial toxicity is an important effect of cancer treatment that can be as devastating as other adverse medical events, it behooves us to find a way to capture the full impact of cost on the lives of our patients and to discuss this frankly, and openly, with the same rigor as any other treatment-related toxicity.

Thus began an amazing journey of physical, mental, and emotional challenges, which initially left her confused, fearful, depressed, angry, sad and just overall miserable. However, eventually the young woman began to embark on a path that ultimately provided tools have assisted her in moving through breast cancer, and other subsequent life altering situations, with more grace and ease. The creation of her “wisdom series” started with breast cancer and has continued to evolve over the past 21 years. Okay, in case you haven’t guessed already, that young woman is me and I would like to share one essential “ingredient” with you now.