In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, today we bring you one our favorite and most poignant posts from last October. 
You might not know Phyllis, but you know someone like her … mother, daughter, wife, sister, grandmother, aunt, teacher, friend. All of us in some way are affected by cancer.
If you know Phyllis, share a memory. If this is your first time reading her story, be inspired and reach out to those around you, share and be thankful for those still with us, and remember those who are not.
My name is Phyllis and I want to share with you my story of survival.
I’ve been blessed every step of the way on this journey that began more than fifteen years ago with annual mammograms. In 1998 suspicious spots were noted on my mammograms.