I wanted to remind anyone who is interested in attending the 7th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer that it is being held this weekend in Arlington, Virginia.
I will be attending and plan on giving updates over the weekend on the many different seminars and workshops. This will be my fifth conference since I was diagnosed in December 2001. It is such an amazing experience.
The seminars and workshops are very informative and you can pick and choose different topics depending on where you are in the treatment process or if you are newly diagnosed with breast cancer or have had a recurrence. There is something for everyone who is a young breast cancer survivor.
I also enjoy being in a room filled with women who are now not just other young survivors but friends.
My friend Deb and I were diagnosed only a few days apart and met on the YSC message boards. She came to visit me this weekend and we celebrated reaching the milestone of five years of survivorship!
www.youngsurvivorsconference.org
1. Hi,
My name is Jenny and I am part of an online community called CarePlace, for people experiencing similar health related issues and their caregivers, including Breast and Lung Cancer. We have recently added new cancer related communities to the site.
As your blog relates to what we are doing at CarePlace, I was wondering if you might be willing to check out our site and let me know if you think it might be helpful to the people who communicate through and with you. People can join multiple communities, share experiences, check out info on medical conditions and treatments and form their own groups within the site.
We have gotten great feedback and as you know the more people in various communities the more outreach and support that happens. Our users have really liked it so far and we are adding new features all the time based on what everyone is telling us.
It’s really important to us to get feedback from people like you about the site as we develop features – the site is www.careplace.com. You can add me as a friend (jend) and let me know what you think.
Thanks in advance!
Jenny (jend)
Posted at 8:25PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Jenny Desmond