V., an immigrant from Tajikstan, is a 33 year old married mother of 2 children. Her older son, age 8, is epileptic, autistic and violent. Soon after opening a kindergarten, V. was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Due to the side effects of treatment, V. is unable...
Every year at about this time, in mid July, I am stopped in my tracks for a few days. It is now eight years since life changed so remarkably for me. On July 18, 2010, I went for what I thought would be a routine mammogram. No reason to worry; no symptoms, no family...
Though the Lemonade Fund, www.lemonadefund.org, would never turn away donations, today I am personally asking for something other than money. Three years ago this week, in July 2010, specifically on the Jewish day of Tisha B'Av, I received the news that I had breast...
To the Israel Breast Cancer Emergency Relief Fund (IBCERF): When I received the difficult news that I had a serious disease, I felt complete destruction. I experienced how in one moment my world crumbled, my home was destroyed, my body - wrecked. I felt as if the last...