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| 08 Mar 2006 01:21:21 pm |
 Surfing For The Brave Hearts |
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The story and the picture courtesy of CBS News
Lee "Gidget" Ferrera has many accomplishments. Many know that she is an excellent surfer, a second-degree black belt, wife, mother of two teenage girls, and an emergency room nurse. But the fact many don't know is that she is in the midst of a battle against breast cancer.
Eastern Surfing Association held its mid-winter competition last month in the waves off Narragansett, R.I. last month. . This even which was held on one of the coldest weekend of the year, with the water in the 36-degree range affected many and the participants ranged from a ten-year-old girl to a 69-year-old woman. This contest is meant only for the brave hearts. Among those who took part was, Lee "Gidget" Ferrera, of nearby Wakefield, R.I.
Ferrera's grandmother died of the disease, her mother survived it, and Ferrera is about halfway through chemotherapy, taking each wave as it comes.
"I had the option of doing treatments over 24 weeks," she says, "or I could do 8 treatments over 16 weeks and I was like, 'Bring it on. Let's get this show on the road and get it over with.' "
Despite Ferrera's illness, she keeps up a pace that would make most women collapse, working twelve-hour shifts in the ER, and as mom to Erica and Elana.
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Category : Breast cancer treatment
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