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Miracles Can Happen
I want to start out saying, life has had its ups and downs for me, but because of that I have learned to appreciate life along the way. Keep a smile on my face and take life one day at a time and sometimes it was just an hour or a minute...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 16:23:04 PDT
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Girls Night Out, "Rockin' 4 a Cure"
We started our group, which we call "Girls Night Out," three years ago. We share all our life stories with each other and found that all of us have had a family member or friend who have died from cancer. Last year, one of the...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 16:13:49 PDT
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Hugs for 50 cents
I'm from Bakersfield High School and I'm out here to walk for Relay for Life and to suport our school and our Interact club. I thought I'd sell hugs for 50 cents and get as much money as I can raise and give it to charity. I've made a...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 16:10:50 PDT
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My experiences with Relay for Life
I have been coming to the Relay for Life for 5 years and supporting a friend of mine from Wal-Mart. I just keep coming out because I'm a survivor also. I was very lucky because I hadn't been to a doctor in a long time and my husband...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:56:58 PDT
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Cancer in a family
My first three great aunts died by age 40.  Then my aunt won by age 36. Then my grandma won by age 39.  I found my first lump at age 34 and was told is was nothing to worry about, but I fought my insurance and got my mammo and...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:53:07 PDT
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Team S.O.F.I.A!!!
Hi Readers, My name is Susanna and I am a first time relayer! Our family came out to support our beloved daughter, Sofia Rose Muñoz. She battled cancer almost all of her little life. She gave me so much faith when she was here...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:49:26 PDT
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I'm a survivor
In 2006 I went to a dermatologist and he cut out a growth that was in my ear. He told me it was malignant. In 2007, it came back and I was at CBCC and they cut it out again. And then I had one cut out of my right eye, just under the eye,...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:46:31 PDT
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The importance of Relay for Life
Before I was diagnosed, my mother had passed away two years before from a rare type of cancer. It was spindle cell cancer and there was no treatment for it at the time. She was in a research study but it didn't work for her. I was...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:44:26 PDT
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I'm under the grace of God and he took care of me
I'm a breast cancer survivor, praise God. I was diagnosed in 1998 because of a lump in my right breast, which I prayed and prayed to go away. But it didn't so eventually they found out it was cancer. The doctor who treated me was also my...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:41:25 PDT
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Ten of us raised $23,000
We're called Bob Miller and Friends: Pull Together to Help Find a Cure. Our captain is Scottie Miller, who lost her husband Bob Miller to cancer. Bob Miller saw the first Relay they had in Bakersfield and said to his wife, "We have...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:38:05 PDT
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My mom had cancer and two weeks later, so did I
I was diagnosed in 1993. I had called the Cancer Society to get information to help me deal with my mom because my mom had cancer. And two weeks later, I had to use the information for myself. It was breast cancer and I went through a...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:35:03 PDT
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Relay for Life
My sister had cervical cancer in 1996 after she had a baby. After he was born they found the cancer. She went through chemo and it was so hard seeing her sick and throwing up all the time. We helped her. We did everything we could...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:31:37 PDT
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I lost my mother-in-law to cancer
I got a couple of friends who have passed away and a mother-in-law. I've seen my friends go through it and it's heartbreaking. But the worst was my mother-in-law. We watched her when it first started, she was coughing up blood. She...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:28:46 PDT
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Bobby's Brigade
Our doctor's office is Mesa West Medical. This year we did Bobby's Brigade because he passed away Nov. 10, 2007 of Leukemia. Bobby is my son. He had down syndrome and he was diagnosed Dec. 15, 2005, with Leukemia. So he went numerous...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:22:37 PDT
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LIFE!
Coming here today, means to me learning more about everyone's struggles, and tough life stories. Before I thought it was just me and that there wasn't many people with cancer, Coming here shows I'm not the only one. People with cancer...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:17:52 PDT
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Being a Survivor
Being a five-year survivor has been a very enlightened experience. In October 2002 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. From this I had to have a right breast masectomy. At the time my job had just ended and I did not have insurance. With...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 15:13:41 PDT
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My Story
My journey with cancer started June 6, 2007 when I received the news that I had "Cancer".  It came as a slap in the face, as I was is the best health of my life, or so I thought. That started a jouurney that I will never...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 12:11:15 PDT
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BOB COHAN’S PASSION; OUR MISSION
Come on out to one of the largest fundraising events in Bakersfield, the American Cancer Society’s 16th Annual Bakersfield Relay For Life takes place this weekend (Friday, May 2nd – Sunday, May 4th) at the CSUB Soccer fields....
Posted by citizenjournalist - Sat May 3, 2008 09:30:07 PDT
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Teens donate birthday gifts in honor of their grandfathers
  Morgan Mize and Baylie Duncan celebrated their entrance into the “teen years” with a huge party. They have been best friends since kindergarten and their birthdays are only a month apart, so a combination party...
Anonymous user - Wed Apr 30, 2008 13:01:09 PDT
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Christine Kildare honored for public service
Christine Kildare stuffs and sews "heart" pillows for the American Cancer Society, which gives the pillows to women after breast cancer surgery. The Woman's Club of Bakersfield has awarded its highest honor, the 2007 Beth...
Posted by citizenjournalist - Thu May 17, 2007 11:53:30 PDT
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