Member Testimonial Comments
"My gift from cancer was finding out how strong I am."
"It had been a long time since I was hugged-like people thought they might catch cancer."
"Renewal catapulted me into a life of service."
"I tell you, all support groups are not the same."
"Where else can you get an hour and a half of a doctor's time every week?"
"I freaked out the pathologist saying I wanted to see the slides of my cancer."
"I demanded to see my files. In there it said I only had a 50% chance of survival. I decided right then the 50% who make it should include me."
"Read your medical records. They had my two sides reversed in the surgery report. It wasn't the doctor; it was reversed in transcription."
"My wife became a caregiver after she got cancer; it helped her go on."
"I learned the value of living and the value of dying."
"The day I finished chemo in 1991 my husband brought me a kitten. I'm now taking care of a geriatric 17 year-old cat."
"The specialist came in the first visit and said, 'I presume you are here because you want to live.' I realized the doctors would only do the surgeries and give the drugs; I had to decide if I wanted to live."