Will VAL one day be able to help women like Fran?17 Oct 2022 15:23
Hi all,
We have just returned from a lovely week away in Greece, while we were on holiday we went to see the waterfalls, a tourist attraction on the island of Lefkada, (almost bone dry).. anyway we got chatting to an English woman while we were there, we had a good old chat about Greece and what we all did for a living, we parted company and wished each other a lovely holiday and went our separate ways…
That evening we were out having dinner in a lovely little restaurant, myself, the Mrs plus our daughter and her mate…. Fran (the woman we had met at the waterfall) came over “who was dining on her own” and said hello, so we asked her if she would like to join us..and she did.
Fran is 41 and an interior designer, who has worked all over the world for a large well known company… she was telling us how she was diagnosed with cancer 2 years ago and had to have a double mastectomy, and several lymph nodes removed that were in the local vicinity, apparently she has a particular gene that makes her susceptible to cancer (forgive me for not taking it all in)..
She was advised it would be a good idea to have her Ovary’s removed, so just before her holiday she had some treatment to shut down her Ovary’s and they will be removed in due course..
She showed us her photo diary of her journey, and I have to say it is bloody “harrowing” she showed us pictures of her hair loss and how very I’ll she was, the chemotherapy certainly did not look a walk in the park..
She joined us for a day out in the car and a few dinners and drinks during the holiday, always very upbeat and very positive, she was not going to give up and she wanted to live as much life as possible and do everything, because she simply doesn’t know how much time she has..
All the time she was showing us her “journey” i kept thinking of VAL..
Like I have said on many occasions it’s not all about the money..
What we are trying to achieve is worthy of much patience when you really think about it.
I am going to point out again, you don’t get good people with great reputations working for you if you don’t have a future, it would defy logic, imo.
OB