Celebrate Cancer Survivors With The Combined Federal Campaign
October 23—29, 2017 is the Combined Federal Campaign Cancer Awareness Week.
This week, Community Health Charities is celebrating the survivors who benefited from our charity partner’s hard work, including:
Vicky Davis, 55, says she’s finally beginning to feel like herself again after over a year of treatments and support from the American Cancer Society. She recently returned to her job working with children who have special needs, and she’s growing a support group of women in her community who’ve been diagnosed with cancer. She has only three more treatments and she’s anticipating breast reconstruction surgery in a few months. After that, she says, “I can go back to the life I once had.”
Vicky’s life was turned upside down in October 2015 when she was called back after her regular, yearly mammogram. Biopsies found cancer in 2 lumps in her left breast and in lymph nodes under her arm. The first breast surgeon Vicky met with did not take her case seriously enough, she says, so she got a second opinion. “If I had not gotten a second opinion, I would not be alive right now,” said Vicky. “I’m getting the latest treatment approved by the FDA. I couldn’t get better care.”
“A lot of things happened to me in my life. I’ve always been afraid; always worried for my husband. Now I’m not as anxious. I’ve tackled the beast. I wasted too much energy being afraid. I’ve tackled this – I can tackle anything.”
Read Vicky’s full story on American Cancer Society’s website and learn how the organizations is attacking cancer from every angle.
- Are you a federal or military employee? Pledge a generous gift through the Combined Federal Campaign to help create more survivor stories like Vicky’s.
- Not eligible to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign? Learn more about our causes, support our efforts, find volunteer opportunities, or share health resources.
