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I got my own not patient navigator but a person to talk one on one How Nice - 

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Subject: Imerman Angels Introduction: XX meet Xx

Dear XX and XX

I would like to introduce you to one another:

XX, lives in XX, TX and requested a Mentor Angel.

XX is  XX lives in Chicago, IL and is prepared to provide support and mentorship.

Please connect with each other over the next few days and let us know if you require any further assistance or support. We're here to help. Here is the contact information that has been provided to us:

new breast cancer patient me

Email: 

Preferred phone: 

K - my mentor

Email: 

Preferred phone: 

Warm regards,

Meredith

Meredith Novak, Cancer Support Specialist Hodgkin's Lymphoma Survivor Imerman Angels 1-on-1 cancer support

Phone: 877.274.5529

Fax: 312.274.5530

Email: mnovak@imermanangels.org

                                                                                                                                                                

205 W. Randolph 19th Flr. Chicago, IL 60606?www.imermanangels.org




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Hello K,

Thanks for your willingness to lend some support and mentor ship.  As you know after a while yourself get tired of talking cancer to your kids and family.  I have 4 children ranging from 24 to 13.  And as you can see I am a working mom.  I work for the XX.  Live downtown.

How kind of you to speak to me.  I am 47 years old and a immigrant from  and now US Citizen.  What a crazy thing to have breast cancer so sudden.  Honestly it never crossed my mind that this will be the case with me.  For 13 years I had not gone for a mammogram.  Thank God that  I did go. 

On  July 29 I will have a double mastectomy.

It is a bit scary (oh yes sorry for my bad English my first language is XX) - I started packing my bag, for the hospital.  Who knows why?  I wonder a lot  about life after mastectomy... you know intimacy.

I am not even sure what to think about all the stuff.  I was diagnosed formally on a Monday in May but the first time they found it was April 18, then I went from one thing to the other, and I seeked a second opinion. 

First I was shocked - then I had to tell others and believe it or not I had to absorb there feelings and walk them through it specially my 13 year old daughter cried a lot, then I waited for the 13, 15 years summer activities to be mostly over before I start treatment - so that moved my treatment on to the end of July so that I do not mess their summer up.  

But lately I am so tired I feel too tired sometimes to get up in the morning to come to work.  I work on a XXand help consumer resolves their  problemsSometimes I wish they can just get to the point where they yank this cancer out of my body, after all I did not ask for it.

In the last week since I am now just more so waiting for surgery and just a few doctors visits I catches myself being angry at times just feeling it is unfair - but then we know God does not give us trials above what we can handle... but yet... who wants to be and optimist sober logic straight thinking cancer patient all the time... we all I guess it is just not so possible.

I am writing a book oops no boobs perhaps you can give me input on that.

Hope I was not to boring.

Thanks for listening