Return-path: <> Envelope-to: thewomen@shared1.delaware.net Delivery-date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:10:24 -0500 Received: from mailnull by shared1.delaware.net with local (Exim 4.80.1) id 1VeywK-00013n-IS for thewomen@shared1.delaware.net; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:10:24 -0500 X-Failed-Recipients: countywomen@gmail.com Auto-Submitted: auto-replied From: Mail Delivery System To: thewomen@shared1.delaware.net Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:10:24 -0500 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: countywomen@gmail.com SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.142.26]: 550-5.7.1 [64.91.234.108 1] Our system has detected an unusual rate of 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our 550-5.7.1 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been blocked. 550-5.7.1 Please visit http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review 550 5.7.1 our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines. i6si4044776igu.1 - gsmtp ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: Received: from thewomen by shared1.delaware.net with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1Veyvp-00012a-CG for countywomen@gmail.com; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:09:53 -0500 To: countywomen@gmail.com Subject: Inspiring and giving hope to cancer patients/survivors Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 03:09:53 +0000 From: "The Women's Journal" Message-ID: <014325fb672b5c013c956dcf6d6281d8@thewomensjournal.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.4 (http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/) MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Contact fromThe Women's Journal
NameKaren Rice
Emailkmimsrice@gmail.com
SubjectInspiring and giving hope to cancer patients/survivors
MessageHello; I'm writing to see if I could possibly share my two-time cancer survivor story with your readers. Reaching and inspiring even one cancer patient/survivor, I've done my job. “An Awakening” When I was diagnosed with Breast cancer a few years back, I reacted like most who receive a cancer diagnose; first thing came to mind was a “death sentence”. However, I found out later that it was truly “an awakening” for me. I began questioning God, why would you do this to me? What had I done in life so bad to have this placed upon me? But instead of bemoaning my fate, I decided to look for the positive side of it. There has to be a reason for it all. I've past those five years for my first cancer. I also realized that I was about to face a new beginning, new hope, do and see more with a whole new prospective on life. When I think of the “gift of life” that was given to me, I know that I will develop and gain strength from all my experiences. After going through all that I did during my breast cancer period, I was left with, what the MD's called “Neuropatic Pain”; a severe nerve damage diagnose. The pain is usually with you all day; and it times worse then others. Later I was diagnosed with “Lymphedema”. Of course I just kept smiling and saying to myself, “Oh lucky me”. For a while, I wasn't happy with the way I looked around my breast area after my first surgery, nor the pain I had to endure each day, but I decided to snap out of it. Even after being diagnosed with another cancer (colon) a few years later. Which totally took me by surprise. I had already had my time with cancer, I thought to myself. Why another one? I even make jokes at times, while crying inside asking, “what am I”, the cancer carrier? But even with the pain I have to endure through each diagnose, and all the struggles I've dealt with all my life, I still feel truly blessed. I think about the individuals that are no longer among us. I also realized that there will always be someone worse off than I am. I reminded myself, that I “still have my life” and who am I to complain. One day during one of my surgeries, I experienced something of a miracle and felt the compulsion to write it down. I turn that experience into a poem and I called it “Peace”. Writing had become therapy for me. I took that poem, along with many others I had composed during my breast cancer period and placed them into book form. I was blessed enough to have that book published and it's titled “True Simple Poems of Life, Faith and Survival”. I later had another inspirational children's book published and I'm working on my third. I'm hoping that anyone who has the opportunity to read my poems, get out of them, what I placed in all of them. My poems are from the heart, as real as any could ever be. With the words and phrases of each poem of statement, I wish to make a positive impact on someone who's ill or otherwise, where they could develop the strength to embrace life in a whole new way. I never anticipated becoming a writer, I just became one. I truly believe when you survive a horrific tragedy or a horrible disease as cancer, it's for a reason, “you have a purpose” and I want to live to find find out exactly what that is for me. That's what I'm all about now, inspiration. I would have never become a writer, producing inspirational poems and stories, if I had not gone through all that I did. I'm a true example that you can survive cancer not once, but twice, providing you catch it in time, have faith and allow that faith to direct your path. I've not saying all will be easy, but you must believe. Karen Rice x2 Cancer Survivor/Author Houston, Texas
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