Thanks to our Troops

Friday, Oct. 3, 2008

List of our Patriots today:


Santee: Kim Matthews, Angela Williams

Johnnie Dodds: Chris Borders, Stan Huff, Billie Jo VanDusen, Jenny Welch, Linda Vincent, Becky Hayward, Bill Knight, Ed Ball, Kimberly Bessinger, Kim Beall, Tyler Bergin, Ken Kurtz, Stephanie Wilson-Hartzog, Susie Schumm,
June Kemmerlin
Sumter: Kim Peasley-Parker, Sylvia McCabe and Holly Racer








Pin-heads today:(those without red, white & blue):
Johnnie Dodds: Marilyn Durkee, Kay Kennerty, Sandy Nettles, JoAnn Leigh
Santee: Martin Rigden, Jill James
Sumter: Jo Milkie


Next Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, The Moultrie News will be at 824 Johnnie Dodds for an interview and a group photo --- they are going to do a story on our Red, White & Blue Fridays. Please JD and IOP agents be at the office at 10:00am --- they will do the photo at 10:30am --- please wear noticeable red,white & blue ---something that will show up in the photo



Personal story for you ladies and men:


I feel that I would like to share with you the details of my cancer scare----so that it may help or save you or one of your loved ones. Although mammograms are very important - critical- they don't always find the "c" --- I had a suspicious spot on a mammogram which led to a needle biopsy which lead to a lumpectomy --


The result of the lumpectomy was that there was something suspicious on the very edge of what was taken out, so the surgeon wanted to go back and get a larger piece.


Boyd & I did not have to think very long before we told the surgeon that we wanted the whole breast taken --- we didn't want to fool around and wish later that we had done this.


After the mastectomy, the results came back --- the area that was "suspicious" was benign, but there was another spot that was the "fast growing cancer" --- this was an area that would not have been found had we not done the mastectomy. Scary, isn't it?


In a follow up visit to the surgeon after the mastectomy, he said that I need to have mammograms every 4-6 months to carefully watch the other breast. Again, it did not take Boyd & me long to tell the surgeon --- "Let's get rid of the other one, too" --- 4 months after the first mastectomy, I had the 2nd one. They removed lymph nodes also. There was no other cancer found --- thank goodness!


I'm here to tell you that without the decision to have the mastectomy, I would probably be a very sick person today even if alive because the lumpectomy would not have found the "fast growing cancer".

The moral of this story: please, if you or one of your loved ones has breast cancer, have them think seriously about the mastectomy. It could save their life. It saved mine.


If you are a young person, don't feel that you are free ---- more and more young women are being diagnosed with cancer all the time. Please have those mammograms regularly and if cancer is found, think mastectomy.

Until later:
Liz Loadholt