breast cancer

December 2013 – Profiles in Courage

Y., is a married, 39-year-old mother of four from the center of the country. She was just diagnosed with recurrent breast cancer, this time in the form of metastases to her lungs. To make her story that much more difficult, her oldest son was just diagnosed with...

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November 2013 Profilee, A., Has Passed Away

The Lemonade Fund received a call from A.'s social worker today telling us that she had died. (Story of A., our November 2013 Profilee is copied below.) Rarely have we been as struck by an applicant, and I stood still and cried. A.'s sister is taking care of A's...

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November 2013- Profiles in Courage

The Lemonade Fund had a record number of applicants in November. Many stories, but one stands out in singular sadness and bravery: A. is a 32 year old mother of three young children living in the center of the country. She is of Ethiopian Jewish descent, and was...

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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/living-with-cancer-giving-thanks-and-latkes/?ref=health&_r=0 Susan Gubar presents an insightful way to be thankful on this day. The Lemonade Fund gave a record number of grants this month, in time for Channukah, to Israeli...

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A thank you from a Lemonade Fund Grant recipient

To the Lemonade Fund: My name is I.Z. I made aliyah (moved to Israel) with my mother, in 1995. I met and had a relationship with a man after arriving. It was a mistake, but out of this relationship a son was born to me in 1997, and his name is T. The father of the boy...

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October 2013 – Profiles in Courage

Many applicants to the Lemonade Fund this month. Here are two stories: M. is a French immigrant with four teenage children and a husband who became too disabled to work, after their arrival. Until her recent diagnosis with breast cancer, M. had been the sole...

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