Support Rachel....
Rachel Troxell is my newest young survivor friend. She was diagnosed just under two years ago with Stage 3C breast cancer -- at the age of 34. She recently got married to Jason and lives in Philadelphia (what a hot couple they are!!).
She is one of the founders of LympheDIVAS which is an awesome company that makes funky compression sleeves for those fashion conscious survivors whose breast cancer surgery results in lymphedema, the not so funky side effect that causes your arm to swell due to the lack draining of the lymphatic fluids. Anyway, their stuff almost makes a fashion conscious survivor like me wish I had lymphedema -- almost but not quite :-)
Well on Friday I got an email from Rachel telling me that her cancer had returned in her liver, lungs, bones, and soft tissue. This news made my stomach upset and still does. I spoke with Rachel today and her spirits are high. I thought by posting about her on the blog, maybe some others could send some positive energy and thoughts her way as well.
She keeps a blog of her journey -- so feel free to check it out and post some words of encouragement. A miracle is in the works for her -- I feel it.
