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Staying Alive: Virginia Hetrick and caBIG

 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...
10/25/08 6:12pm

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.  

10/27/08 11:00pm

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

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