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Any cancer survivors here?

Mrs.LB705Mrs.LB705
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First of all--yayyyyyy for being a survivor! Stick out tongue

Secondly, my dear friend is coming up on the one-year anniversary of her double mastectomy and being cancer-free (oooh, side question: even though she was cancer free after that, is that the anniversary that is "celebrated", or is it the follow-up with her oncologist when he officially declared that she was cancer free??).

Okay, anyway, so I want to recognize that date for her, but I also know that she's wanting to start fresh and find a new normal that isn't ALL ABOUT being a CANCER SURVIVOR, KWIM?

So I don't want to just send her another bunch of pink ribbon stuff . . . but I want to do something meaningful for her.  Not just flowers or whatever.  Ideas?

THANKS!!!

Linda

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  • rumpunch21rumpunch21

    My mom's a breast cancer survivor. She celebrates the anniversary as the day the doctor declared her cancer free.

    No ideas for a gift though. Sorry. But it's a nice gesture of you to want to do something!

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  • auggiedoggyauggiedoggy

    oh, what do you think of this necklace? 

     https://www.etsy.com/listing/44321573/freedom-lariat?ref=sr_gallery_2&ga_search_query=freedom&ga_search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5933874

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  • Mrs.LB705Mrs.LB705
    ooooh, cute!  Nice idea, thank you!
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  • ebb7ebb7

    Not a survivor...yet...but hope to be very soon. I'm currently halfway through chemo for breast cancer and had a mastectomy in January...

    Anyway - I know you are already involved with Komen. What about making a generous donation in celebration of her (to recognize her survival) and then pair that with a gift certificate to a spa to just get pampered?

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  • Mrs.LB705Mrs.LB705
    imageebb7:

    Not a survivor...yet...but hope to be very soon. I'm currently halfway through chemo for breast cancer and had a mastectomy in January...

    Anyway - I know you are already involved with Komen. What about making a generous donation in celebration of her (to recognize her survival) and then pair that with a gift certificate to a spa to just get pampered?

    GOOD LUCK to you--you'll be a survivor before you know it--I'll keep you in my prayers!

    She's doing the walk with me this year, so I donated to her already for that, and she isn't comfortable going to a spa yet--we do a GIrls' Spa Weekend every year, but this year (last weekend, actually!) we just did a cottage at the beach because she's just not there yet.

     

    THANK YOU!!

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