Staying Alive: Virginia Hetrick and caBIG

Phyllis Johnson Been Through It Inflammatory Breast Cancer Survivor Phyllis Johnson grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. Parents of... Send Message Subscribe: Phyllis Johnson

Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Sometimes all it takes to bring hope to hundreds of people is to stay alive after a grim cancer prognosis. That’s what Virginia Hetrick has been doing for seventeen years. In 1998, when I joined an on-line support group for Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), Virginia, w...

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My apologies
Phyllis Johnson
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 06:12 PM

I've learned that Virginia is 5'7". That is tall! i don't know whether her booth at the restaurant was lower than mine, or whether I'm just that bad at estimating height--probably the latter. I'm sorry, Virginia.

Thanks for the reminder
PJ Hamel
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:00 PM

There's power in putting one foot in front of the other every day, and never ever ever ever ever giving up. It's no guarantee, but it's sure better than lying down and letting cancer stomp all over you. Thanks, Phyllis. -PJH