GEORGETOWN - Editor's note : part three in a series of three days on the efforts of the community for breast cancer awareness.
Lorene Nelson is supposed to be a dead woman.
In November 2005, she was diagnosed breast of stage 4 and 14 to 18 months to live.
She went in and talked with God.
"Lord - you heard that the doctor had to say," Nelson pointed out that day thought. "But I know that you're a healer.
Today, faith remains unshakable.
"For me, I don't have it," the old evangelist for 63 years, said on Wednesday while sitting in his living room.Still, it takes drugs, including those intended to prevent cancer cell growth and watch his diet, among other things. "But doctors have never called me in the Office and did step said,"Ms. Nelson, you no longer have cancer.' " ?
Faith and fervour contribute to his mental outlook.She refuses to simply sit on the sidelines of life and let the breast to kill.
October 15, it bears his heart and hope to the White House, where she shared her story with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of health and services Kathleen Sebelius and others when calling National Conference on health care reform.
History of Nelson, as any good story has its twists and turns and turns. However, its history never flickers on faith. It is a word that it uses constantly.
Until she learned she had breast cancer, she undergoes the death of his father in 1997, the death of her mother in 1998 and the death of her husband, two days before his birthday in 1999.
"If I knew not the Lord, I have lost my mind," Nelson said evoking images of his parents, Thomas andAlma Moyd and her husband, William Nelson at "but thanks to God, I knew that the Lord".
The death of her husband, she was left without health insurance. And insurance money that she was used to pay his hospital bills and other expenses.
"This is my William," she says while fixing a photograph of the two of them. It is oil-black hair that falls on his shoulders. Later, chemotherapy and radiotherapy take his silky ladies '-tresses more later. "They make plus.Il was old school."He was not convinced females [outside of the House].?
Traditionalist itself suitable arrangement Nelson, although she did a little money on the side making Afghan and hats, while her man has worked at International Paper mill.
After the death of her husband, however, she didn't have enough money for a mammogram when she discovered a lump on her left breast and had a sensitivity under her left arm.
"I am just go further, but it never dawned on me that it was cancer," said Nelson.
At the time wherever she received the best network of the American Cancer Society of chance, which provides free breast and cervical cancer cervical tests for underserved women, breast Nelson was reddish with indentations, hard as a brick, hot and fluffy to the touch.
This is when she received the sombre.Le cancer prognosis was inflammatory and had spread his lymph nodes. His two sons, Carl Staggers and Edgar Staggers, told him that she was not the only war.
"They," MOM, we are in a battle, and you soldier in "," Nelson said. "" "" They said, ' MOM, you strong."My son has been impressive.I saw my boys become men far away.?
She crossed a chimiothérapie.Ensuite, she had a mastectomy, then chemotherapy and then more radiation.
His shot nail noirs.Ses hair fell out.
"I their called chemo nails," said Nelson, adding that it has increased enthusiastic about trying different wigs, especially those that reddish brown.
A preacher since 1989, she refused to let cancer retain in his evangelical work.
It preached by his pain.
"We've been amazed," said Barbara Nesmith Wednesday evening after Nelson wrapped up the first evening a revival of three days at the Bible Fellowship Church, where she is a member.
Willie Nesmith, Nesmith, who is also a Minister and cousin of Nelson, her husband said that he was not surprised Nelson has never left the cancer get her down.
He said: "my cousin has just this kind of faith,". "She believes that God is with her.?
Joyce Hudson, who will celebrate 15 years as a survivor of breast cancer on October 28, said Nelson faith helped mars on Senate, although always fully engaged in the battle.
"Mistake same.the medicine is useful, and you need, said Hudson, a friend Nelson and coordinator of worker awareness for the best chance to network.""But you still have some type of support, regardless of your faith, that support will help you through."
Nelson, too, finds it and put it in the song Wednesday as members of the acclaimed congregation along to the sound of his rousing alto voice and rich.
"I am a witness to life", Nelson sings. "I would have been dead and missing, but God, let me live sur.Je am a testimony of life, and every day that I thank the Lord - I'm alive.
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