Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
Church Honoring Cancer Survivors
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| Robin Snow places her cancer ornament on the Tree of Hope at First United Methodist Church of Mocksville. |
It was my turn. I was told I had breast cancer.
I started praying. God, whatever happens is your will. You have blessed me for a long time, and for that, I’m thankful.
The blessings have been many. He gave me a beautiful daughter, Amy, my only child. Everyone knows how special she is. Then God blessed me with three healthy grandchildren.
Thank you.
Ken and I know that God put us together. The cancer was harder on Ken than me. I had medications to ease the pain, and he stood by me throughout it all. Morphine made me say things I didn’t remember. My sister apologized to the nurses. There’s something special about sisters. Thank you, Ann, I couldn’t have made it without you.
It’s tough.
My body has changed.
I’m tired.
I ask the doctors when I will feel better. They say give it a year. I guess after a double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery, I expected to look and feel great. That’s not quite how it is, but I’m just thankful to be here.
Cancer is nothing new to my family. It has been in my life since the day I was born.
My grandmother, Sue Fraley Holmes, was not able to be with her daughter, Robinette Holmes Feimster, the day I was born. She had just had a mastectomy, her second. After having both breasts removed because of cancer, Grandmother received massive amounts of cobalt radiation. She was 55 years old. But God saved my grandmother.
Things were pretty normal until March 3, 1975. Cancer struck again taking my mother at 45 years old in four weeks of sickness. It was everywhere in her body. She left three lonesome children. Ann Sechrest, the oldest, me, the middle child, and our little brother, Breck Feimster. He was 13-years-old.
God took care of us and held us together. Breck lived with Ann ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.