Patrice – Advocate Christ Medical Center, IL
Patrice is a Breast Nurse Navigator for Advocate Christ Medical Center Cancer Institute in Illinois and one of our Partnership Coordinators. Christ Medical Center is a member of our Partnership Program and is honored to be the recipient of a corporate donation from LabCorp to be able to pass along Hope Scarves to women in treatment.
The MBC cloak
/11 Comments/in My Hopeful Life Blog /by Lara MacGregorTake a deep breath. Breath in and out. Close your eyes. Repeat. This is a simple exercise I do often each day to ground myself. Right now, it’s hard… I am fearful that the lining of my lungs is filling with cancerous fluid (as suspected in a recent scan) and as a result – I […]
Thanks and giving.
/3 Comments/in My Hopeful Life Blog /by Lara MacGregorI was ready to put cancer away for Thanksgiving (which also happens to be my 42nd birthday). It’s just been a lot lately, but as I woke up this morning at our farm I realized first I needed to get out some feelings… and process the past couple weeks. It’s quiet… the boys are sleeping, […]
11 years…
/11 Comments/in My Hopeful Life Blog /by Lara MacGregorI’m 30 years old, 7 months pregnant, I dress up for Halloween wearing an orange shirt with a pumpkin drawn on my big round belly. Our little two year old dinosaur trick or treats for the first time with his monkey and princess friends. I am planning the McWane Science Center annual fundraiser, Beaker Bash. […]
I am safe.
/10 Comments/in My Hopeful Life Blog /by Lara MacGregorThank you for the outpouring of love and support as we faced our first MBC progression diagnosis. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks – hosting 500+ friends for Hope Scarves annual event, Colors of Courage (a huge success… more on that below), soccer tournaments, scans, doctor appointments, phone calls, more scans, escaping to Maine […]
Hope begins in the dark
/17 Comments/in My Hopeful Life Blog /by Lara MacGregorWell, this post isn’t what I hoped to be writing today. After 4 ½ years of champagne celebrations following clear scans – today we got the news we knew would come eventually. Progression. I have a new spot in my left femur and growth on my right hip. There it is. In a way we […]