Today I added another page to my "Special Pages" section of the sidebar. It contains a reprint of an abstract of a talk given by Madeleen Herreshoff, who until recently was director of an organization called CANHELP. It also is a good point to start at, if you want to explore the website ANNIEAPPLESEED.ORG, run by the amazing Ann Fonfa, a breast cancer survivor who used no conventional treatments and who is a tireless advocate/crusader for the advancement of research and information about alternative treatments for cancer.
When I was first diagnosed, back in August 2005, I spoke to Ann Fonfa on the phone. She called me from a phone booth when she was attending a cancer conference of some sort, in response to a (probably panicky) voice mail message that I had left her.
(How I first heard of her and got her private number is another kind of amazing story, which I have written about already...somewhere in this blog. I will have to find and re-post it, but not now because I have to hurry up and get dressed and drive through the rain to an eye doctor appointment in West Portal, where I am also going to check to see if a "psychic" church I once went to there, 30 years ago, still exists. What do you think the chances of that are? It's a long shot. I can't remember the name of the church and am not even sure I can find the house it was in. That's another story, too...the story of Pearl the Psychic and how my experience with her still affects my health and healing to this day.
I always love hearing about Pearl...
Posted by: mary ann stein | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 at 06:49 PM