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Meg Eastman
Meg Eastman
I used to feel pretty invincible when it came to cancer. It wasn't directly impacting me. My friends were healthy. My family was safe.
That view can change so quickly.
Cancer most definitely impacts my life, my family, and my friends. I just wasn't paying attention previously. Do the math and it's embarrassing just how naive I was. This March we celebrated 3 years of my husband, Jeff, living withOUT a GBM brain tumor. It's a milestone that the numbers say we shouldn't have met, but we are oh so grateful that we did...and that we keep doing! But cancer did throw us a punch this year when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully she's going strong after surgery, chemo, and radiation, but it was a fight we weren't expecting. The impact her diagnosis has on my numbers game was brought to light when my PCP referred me to a high risk cancer specialist. Me!? The invincible one...high risk? With breast cancer genes on both sides of my family, I'm in a new scary category.
Woah. How did that happen so quickly? Seemingly untouchable to high risk in 3 years. It's a very personal story for me now, but I'm not alone. Cancer sneaks up on millions of patients each year. That's why I feel so strongly that we support the cancer centers that we may need one day. The numbers don't lie. If not you, then a friend or a family member may one day have to seek treatment at a cancer center. God willing it will be a place where top notch doctors have access to the latest technology and research and are eligible for the latest trials and treatments.
Jeff and I have been blessed with excellent care in our hometown at VCU's Massey Cancer Center. Thankfully my mother found the same in Nashville at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Having access to the best while still being at home is so comforting and important in the healing process.
If access to high quality care is what we want, we have to support it, even before we need it. That's why I've accepted the Massey Challenge. I'll be running in the Monument Avenue 10K on April 20, 2024 to put cancer on the run. Any funds I'm able to raise will go to the VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and their life-saving cancer research. Please join me in building up my hometown's safety net. You never know when we might need it.
Thank you,
Meg
That view can change so quickly.
Cancer most definitely impacts my life, my family, and my friends. I just wasn't paying attention previously. Do the math and it's embarrassing just how naive I was. This March we celebrated 3 years of my husband, Jeff, living withOUT a GBM brain tumor. It's a milestone that the numbers say we shouldn't have met, but we are oh so grateful that we did...and that we keep doing! But cancer did throw us a punch this year when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Thankfully she's going strong after surgery, chemo, and radiation, but it was a fight we weren't expecting. The impact her diagnosis has on my numbers game was brought to light when my PCP referred me to a high risk cancer specialist. Me!? The invincible one...high risk? With breast cancer genes on both sides of my family, I'm in a new scary category.
Woah. How did that happen so quickly? Seemingly untouchable to high risk in 3 years. It's a very personal story for me now, but I'm not alone. Cancer sneaks up on millions of patients each year. That's why I feel so strongly that we support the cancer centers that we may need one day. The numbers don't lie. If not you, then a friend or a family member may one day have to seek treatment at a cancer center. God willing it will be a place where top notch doctors have access to the latest technology and research and are eligible for the latest trials and treatments.
Jeff and I have been blessed with excellent care in our hometown at VCU's Massey Cancer Center. Thankfully my mother found the same in Nashville at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Having access to the best while still being at home is so comforting and important in the healing process.
If access to high quality care is what we want, we have to support it, even before we need it. That's why I've accepted the Massey Challenge. I'll be running in the Monument Avenue 10K on April 20, 2024 to put cancer on the run. Any funds I'm able to raise will go to the VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and their life-saving cancer research. Please join me in building up my hometown's safety net. You never know when we might need it.
Thank you,
Meg
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