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A Word from the President. Thank you for visiting our site! At Carrie's TOUCH survivors and their quality of life is among our greatest concerns. I am pleased to announce that I am a three-year survivor!
Therefore, I personally monitor and manage the services offered through Carrie's TOUCH to ensure that the needs of the survivor are met - with the survivor in mind.
Though I grow stronger daily, this journey remains filled with its own set of challenges from physical to financial to emotional and even spiritual. However, what disturbs me most is learning that a fellow survivor's needs are not being met.
Health care in the United States is far from perfect. In fact, I would not give it an acceptable rating. Yet those in other countries would marvel at our system, and graciously receive any available assistance.
I read an alarming article in the New York Times in September about a breast cancer hospice patient dieing in Sierra Leone. The article moved me to tears as it disturbed me deeply. Mrs. Zainabu Sesay, and others on hospice in her country suffer the remainder of their lives without the luxury of pain medication. Since being diagnosed in 2004, I have learned what it's like to live in pain daily and without adequate health insurance. Yet my pain or insurance issues could never compare that of Mrs. Sesays' or others like her. I thought of and prayed for Mrs. Sesay until the Lord gave my spirit peace. I imagine that peace came because Mrs. Sesay passed on, but my desire to serve the less fortunate has not and will not.
Today, I ask you to pray for those in countries that do not offer relief from severe pain. And, pray for those in this country that are caught in the paperwork and bureaucracies of our health care system. Exercise your power in November and vote. I am as hopeful as our foremothers and fathers that one day, all persons will be treated equally.
In God's Hope, Peace and Power
Rev. Tammie
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