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Susie Krell

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Cancer type: Carcinoid
Diagnosis year: 2006 November
Home: Melbourne Florida - USA

How I Survive Cancer

I try to keep a good attitude and remember that my grandmother who had it too, lived to be 94. I chose to not go see 2012, as that was the year I was told I might make it to. It was not in my plan to only be here till I was 58, I still have hopes of having a grandchild someday, and my husband and I have way too many places to travel yet on my bucket list. I do not allow myself to be satisfied with my fate. If my doctors will not look outside the box, I will.

How I Fight for a Cure

I still believe everything we need is here within our grasp if we only look in the right place. So I travel and I try things that may not be western in nature. I look at what is similar in my life and my grandmothers, yet different from my other family members. I know that I am living with the answer, we all are that have this, we just need to keep digging within ourselves. My doctors sometimes feel things I do or try are too dangerous, but why not try, they think were just going to die anyway.

My Caring Words of Encouragement

Don't allow people to make you feel that you don't really have cancer. Just because your hair is still on your head, or your breasts still hang on your chest, does not make your fight any less real. Let them wear Pink! Our cancer may be slow and our symptoms varied, but I know our carcinoid "turtles" will eventually win this race.



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