[AlaskaAngel]

Debbie,

You never were one to just sit back and observe, but have invested heart and soul toward making as much sense of the trauma as possible, as a breast cancer patient with intuition and intelligence. You have made it your commitment to be very involved. It becomes a relationship.

With each passing year of survivorship there is no loss of appreciation for the experience of bonding and support with other breast cancer patients, but there is more awareness of time passing with lots of energy and money and time investment but not enough coordination and direction of the resources and the people.

What continues to disappoint me is that over time we have finally had more and more women in positions of knowledge and authority, yet there remain unspoken barriers to an open approach with respectful honest communication in health care about the realities involved in the analysis and treatment of breast cancer. To me that has to change.

AlaskaAngel