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It was a conversation with her youngest daughter that mobilized Vickie Race, a Los Angeles mother of four.
“Michelle was talking to me about her future, and she said, ‘When I get breast cancer … .’” The girl was only twelve.
“She said it as if it was inevitable,” Vickie recalls. “I understood why. In 2000, my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy. In 2002, the same thing happened with my mother. Two years later, it was me. So Michelle figured her turn would eventually come.
“At that point, I realized that I could no longer be a victim. I needed to do something.”
Vickie’s Story. She noticed the larger lump on her breast one April morning in 2004, as she was getting ready for work. Anxiously, she kept checking it over the next several days, hoping the problem was all in her imagination. But the doctor’s…
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Hello WAU,good morning,I really want to use this medium to appreciate what the races as a amily are doin to encourage those that have this dreaded disease.This disease which the cure hasn’t really been found is eating up the lives of people especially africa where am from Nigeria to be precise.It has put fear in people that once it is diagonosed,it is observed that the person/family klnows hte life of that person is gone.Cancer,especially that of breast actually took the life of my aunt in 2008.It was a very painful one and it is spreading like fire. So I would like to encourage the Races to please spread this prayer/mass down here in Nigeria and I believe that just like the Israelites looked up to the Golden serpent and were healed, those affected can look up to Jesus on the cross and get the healing both inner and outer they deserve.More grease to your elbows The Races family and May God in His infinite mercy grant your family a total deliverance from ths disease and protect and prosper this ministry that you have started and see it to a fruitful end,Amen. It gives joy to know that catholics are beginning to have faith in the mass and thats what the Races are trying to do,am really touched,God Bless you.
This week a non Catholic friend told me that she had received a breast cancer diagnosis. She is scheduled for a radical double mastectomy in a couple weeks. I added her to my prayers that very night and had a dicussion with her about the absence of fear in the presence of absolute faith in our God. Her name is Gail E. Please add her to your prayer list. Thanks and may God continue to bless you in your ministry.