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Cancer Survivor and Community Volunteer
Learns New Lesson Amid Disaster
77 year old Nashville Woman
Used to
Giving Learns to Receive
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –
May 21, 2010 - 77-year-old Hazel Fields describes
herself as a giver. Over her life, she’s been a mother to four boys, a
middle school teacher and a 20-year volunteer for the American Cancer
Society.
But for this giver, the recent flood took almost everything.
Destroyed is her Bordeaux area home filled with a lifetime of
possessions.
She’s on the receiving end for the first time.
“I’d rather be a giver
than a receiver, but hey, what can I do? My niece says, “Aunt Hazel you
have done for people for so many years, you need to sit back and let
people
help you. But I’ve never had to depend on anyone,” says Fields who’s
temporarily living at her niece’s house.
Fields’ life changed so quickly
that Sunday of the Flood. Early that morning, Fields and her husband of
55 years were summoned home from church due to the rising water. The
family
only had time to grab the barest of essentials before water filled their
home.
The next day, using hip waders to enter, she saw her refrigerator was on
its
side, a freezer thrown about, mud encasing family photo albums.
Fields, a 30-year breast cancer
survivor who counsels new breast cancer patients in the American Cancer
Society’s Reach to Recovery Program is proud to have survived just as
she
conquered breast cancer. “I have faith. And I keep my sanity by
knowing we’re still alive when so many aren’t.” For this giver, the
flood took
so much, but did not reduce her passion for volunteering. “Any and
everybody needs to give back to their community.”
Help out area flood victims, and
cancer survivors like Hazel, by coming out to the Relay For Life at LP
Field on
June 18. Canned goods will be collected for Second Harvest Food Bank and
you
can enjoy some fundraising family fun for the American Cancer Society.
For more
information visit relayforlife.org/nashville.
Relay For Life, the Society’s
signature event, is a life-changing experience that helps us celebrate
the
lives of those who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost and to
fight
back against a disease that takes too much. This unforgettable event
raises
awareness and funds to save lives, help those touched by cancer, and
empower
people to fight back against this disease.
About the American Cancer
Society
The American Cancer Society
combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to
save
lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force of
more than
three million volunteers, we fight for every birthday threatened by
every
cancer in every community. We save lives by helping people stay well by
preventing cancer or detecting it early; helping people get well by
being there
for them during and after a cancer diagnosis; by finding cures through
investment in groundbreaking discovery; and by fighting back by rallying
lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities
worldwide to
join the fight. As the nation’s largest non-governmental investor in
cancer
research, contributing more than $3.4 billion, we turn what we know
about
cancer into what we do. As a result, more than 11 million people in
America who
have had cancer and countless more who have avoided it will be
celebrating
birthdays this year. To learn more about us or to get help, call us any
time,
day or night, at 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org.
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