Written by EEW Online Magazine
If you want to know what it means to come through a test with a powerful
testimony, meet 43-year-old Epilepsy and Breast Cancer survivor, Andrea Nugent.
Recently featured in the Miami Herald, CBS News and Women’s Health Magazine, her
triumphant story is one of courage, and turning pain into purpose.
Andrea
was diagnosed with Epilepsy at 27 and at 39, doctors found cancer in Andrea’s
breast, ovary and lymphatic system. She was too sick to care for her then
2-year-old son (now 6), Zachary Nelson. But her large Caribbean family rallied
around her and supported Andrea through her rough ordeal.
She knows
everyone isn’t so fortunate. That’s why through Andrea Nugent’s nonprofit
organization, B.i.o.n.i.c. Girls Inc. (Beauty is Optional: Newer Improved
Changed), she provides free transportation, household cleaning, and more to
breast cancer patients who need help so desperately.
To raise money to
support her wonderful efforts, Andrea has published a children’s book, Mommy is
Still Mommy: Cancer Can't Change That. “Breast cancer is not a death sentence,”
Andrea Nugent told Women’s Health Magazine when asked the one thing she wants
women to know.
She is living proof that the disease can become
inspiration to fuel your life’s purpose. For more information about Andrea visit
www.andreanugent.com
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
What Matters Most In Life?
Someone asked me today what did I find to be the most important and the least important about life, while battling cancer. This was my reply:
Well for me, I was a workaholic and always struggled with work life balance. My son Zach was so young and he would come and want to play and I remember having to often say not right now mommy has to finish this audit. It took me being sick to really put a value on quality family time. What became most important to me was creating memories that my son will always have long after I am gone.
I began recording our conversations so he can remember things we share and my voice. Material things, though never were really important to me became even less important. I lost everything, my health, job, house, car yet I still had everything in God, my family, friends. Most of all God's trust in that He knew that I would know what to do once He healed me. Share His Word and His Love!
I am affectionately known in my family as "The Energizer Bunny," and some people still think I am a workaholic but I definitely now know when to shut it down and put family first. I am so passionate about what I'm doing now it doesn't feel like work any more.
Funny how life's challenges can change your whole perspective in life. What matters today, truly may not matter tomorrow and vice versa. Definitely don't sweat the small stuff. Thanks SK Dixon for inspiring this post. Peace and blessings.
Well for me, I was a workaholic and always struggled with work life balance. My son Zach was so young and he would come and want to play and I remember having to often say not right now mommy has to finish this audit. It took me being sick to really put a value on quality family time. What became most important to me was creating memories that my son will always have long after I am gone.
I began recording our conversations so he can remember things we share and my voice. Material things, though never were really important to me became even less important. I lost everything, my health, job, house, car yet I still had everything in God, my family, friends. Most of all God's trust in that He knew that I would know what to do once He healed me. Share His Word and His Love!
I am affectionately known in my family as "The Energizer Bunny," and some people still think I am a workaholic but I definitely now know when to shut it down and put family first. I am so passionate about what I'm doing now it doesn't feel like work any more.
Funny how life's challenges can change your whole perspective in life. What matters today, truly may not matter tomorrow and vice versa. Definitely don't sweat the small stuff. Thanks SK Dixon for inspiring this post. Peace and blessings.
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