I speak to people who tell me they seek a public platform. That is not what my journey is about for me personality. I simply want to help others, inspire them to fight, give hope and courage and say you too can beat cancer or adversity in life.
I want my message to say you can transpire any bad circumstance into strength and comfort and prevail.
God has blessed me with not only sparing my life, the gift of life, to watch my children grow, and the ability to reach out to others and spread positivity, hope and faith through my personal triumphs and beating stage 3 breast cancer.
Experiencing any difficult, life threatening, debilitating, or tragedy I feel employs me to never take a moment for granted. I chose to see and relish in all life's silver linings and blessings each and every day. I don't let life's difficult times get in my way or weigh me down as I'm raising my five babies healthy and Cancer free, and truly don't have any problems I cant over come.
Speaking with many survivors I constantly hear the same thing, be positive, have faith, hope and dream big, pay it forward and help others, and that life style will grant you peace, and happiness,
I have learn through this journey I can not change others, I can only improve and make personal changes within myself.
I certainly have trials and tribulations in life just as we all do. I personality chose to not let them take from me my happiness and well being, or steal my time or positive thoughts. Money can come and go in life, but God has always provided our meals. I say to my kids each and everyday " We are all healthy, so we do not have any problems"
My husband tells me frequently that God will lead and guide. I have always felt that there is no such thing as a coincidence, as its only God choosing to remain anonymous. I feel strongly that the people placed on our path in life and who we meet are for a greater purpose and enhance us and make us stronger. We all learn from each other.
I have had so many wonderful life changing experiences from meeting Samantha and Kyle Bush, who are a remarkable selfless couple who are advocates for breast cancer and donate hundreds of thousands of dollars and their time.
I have been blessed to of won the New Balance award and to attend the Susan Komen race and help raise just short of a million dollars for a fight for the cure. It was icing on the cake to of been interview by our local media and been able to share my message of hope, faith, perseverance.
My family was recently able to take a well earned break and vacation to the Gulf of Mexico. My husband and I had the privilege to meet another celebrity Walt The Big Ticket Harris a UFC fighter. The reason I mention this is I was so inspired by he and his wife. You would never know he and his family where famous. Walt's faith in God and self perseverance and his ability to beat all odds and be triumphant is inspiring. He too has a gift and chooses to pay it forward, be a positive voice, role model, and inspire people. His wife is truly and angel among us, and a very special woman, who God has given a special gift as she is a nurse who helps abused children every day. What an amazing couple who change lives. I am honored to call them friends.
Its not your notoriety, celebrity status, that makes anyone a super star, its how you live your life and how you treat others that does!
We stayed at the #2 ranked IHG brand Holiday Inn Resort Panama City beach. The reason I mention this is we have traveled often, taken our kids out of the country to the Caribbean and many trips to Disney. The Holiday Inn Resort PCB was a remarkable experience and rose above all the others . Not only do all the general managers and entire staff make you feel like family they are always smiling and have the best customer service I have ever seen. They go above and beyond and even got Delaney and Addison a birthday cake and had a pool side party for their 7th, and 5th birthdays. What a caring staff that is kind, friendly, and make you feel at home. Go visit and vacation there with a large variety of entertainment and kid clubs too plus the beach is gorgeous. We had a truly amazing memorable vacation there.
I want to leave you with a few last thoughts and statics
I was only 18% of all breast cancers being diagnosed with triple negative
There is no cancer in my family nor do I have a BRCA or any gene mutation either (I am 1 in 8 women that was diagnosed with breast cancer ~
Further more Triple negative is high among Hispanic and black women (I'm white)
Only one-third TNBC patients achieve a PCR (no caner found after treatment) I beat it and had no cancer found
The point is when faced with adversity I beat all odds. I was TNBC stage 3c July 2014, and stand here cancer free 1 short year later with an excellent prognosis!
With God, faith and a positive attitude and mind set you can do anything, as the sky's your limit!
I tell my kids do not say you can't, as you mean you won't. If you want it bad enough YOU WILL!
I am including some pictures and a link to my interview~
God bless
Interview link copy and paste it~
http://www.twcnews.com/nc/triangle-sandhills/news/2015/06/13/breast-cancer-survivors-participate-in-susan-g--komen-triangle-race.html
