A Mirrored Image
A Story about Cancer and Survival
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He
sends His angels to watch over you.
“The past is gone, but now is forever. The future does not lie in our hands, but the
future lies in the hands of the present.” Anonymous
Believe
and all things are possible. This is my
motto of surviving cancer so I can celebrate life. I celebrate life every day I’m on Earth, but
I want a big celebration when I hear the words “You are cancer free and no more
treatments.” It will be a celebration of
love, thankfulness, joy, happiness, and faith.
A true celebration of a life that has learned and lived the effects of
cancer yet brought forth knowledge so great that if faced with it again, I
would know exactly what to do. I would
fight to win another battle and that’s something we don’t know if it will
happen and when. “Margaret Thatcher once
said, “You might have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
The
stronger a person you are the easier the fight of cancer is. Find all knowledge possible about your
condition and use it to heal. You are in
charge! If you disagree with doctors,
then continue to research and find one that has the same fight in them as you
do to beat cancer. In searching for a
doctor, you need one who is knowledgeable in the field, compassionate, willing
to work with you, and have a drive to defeat the disease as you do. I drove over two hundred miles to find a
surgeon who I felt was trained and could do my final surgery. I made the right
choice because he wanted to conquer this cancer the same as I did. The day I met my oncologist, Dr. Larson I
knew he was the one for me.
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About the Book
Can
an image of an angel in a mirror be a sign that God chose me to have cancer for
a reason?
A Mirrored Image is a courageous story about a thirty-nine year old
woman who was preparing for her seventeenth year of teaching when suddenly she
was facing the biggest challenge of her life.
From
diagnosis to recovery and knowledge of finding myself,
this book is a look at a candid account of a battle with a devastating illness
of rectal cancer and a sense of the person I became. It celebrates life and the triumph of a
determined, courageous, and spiritual woman.
As
the mental healing was beginning so did the chemotherapy. With faith and positive thinking, I tell
about my struggle and outline the processes I used to deal with surgery and
treatments. I used many facets other
than medical to survive and begin my celebration of life.
My
hope is for all newly diagnosed cancer patients to find the
faith, strength, courage, and hope to fight cancer with a positive
attitude and win. I also hope that
people still battling cancer finds the inspiration and guidance to enrich their
outlook of this disease and their life.
About the Author
A
1984 college graduate with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education with a
concentration in Special Education (Behavior Disordered and Mentally Impaired),
the author has had sixteen years of teaching experience. She has instructed several in service training
sessions to teachers and is now concentrating on her writing since taking early
retirement due to cancer.
She
is in the process of starting a local chapter for Colorectal Cancer that will
promote awareness of the disease, the need for early detection, and tell her
story of survival. She is a member of
Colon Cancer Alliance.
Pamela
and her husband Manuel are the proud parents of two teenagers Tyler, sixteen
and Lindsey, fourteen. They have resided
in