{"id":18597,"date":"2020-01-20T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=294065"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:51","slug":"mom-who-fought-breast-cancer-while-pregnant-describes-the-benefits-of-having-a-mentor-during-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mom-who-fought-breast-cancer-while-pregnant-describes-the-benefits-of-having-a-mentor-during-the-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Who Fought Breast Cancer While Pregnant Describes The Benefits Of Having A Mentor During The Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a mentor while going through a breast cancer diagnosis can be incredibly helpful. Your medical needs are a priority, but so is your mental health. When you are able to talk with someone regularly who is going through the same thing you are and has beaten it, they can offer immeasurable emotional support.<\/span>One organization in the United States offers this service free of charge. ABCD: After Breast Cancer Diagnosis<\/a> was started in Wisconsin just over 20 years ago. They now have 600 volunteer Mentors who are available throughout the U.S. and even some other countries, and that number continues to grow.<\/span>\u201cWe envision a world where personalized peer support is part of everyone\u2019s quality breast cancer care, leading to a more confident, empowered survivor,\u201d their website reads<\/a>.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>
\n<\/span>Judy Midlin is the Director of Program Services at ABCD, and Jessica Storm is someone who participates in the program. They sat down with the hosts of The Morning Blend<\/a> to talk about the benefits of ABCD.<\/span>ABCD is a free, personalized, one-on-one mentoring service that complements the work of a patient\u2019s medical team. The program is for anyone who has been affected by breast cancer, including the patient, their family, and their friends.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>Their mentors have all been trained, and ABCD matches a patient with a mentor based on not only the person, but the diagnostic, as well.<\/span>\u201cSo when they\u2019re feeling overwhelmed, when they\u2019re afraid, they\u2019re lonely, they\u2019re trying to figure out how to juggle their schedules, they have an anniversary of perhaps one of their treatments coming up \u2014 we\u2019re the place that they can call and talk with someone who can help them through that time,\u201d Midlin said.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>Jessica Storm is a participant in the ABCD program. She and her husband struggled with fertility issues and went through the heartbreak of miscarriages before finally becoming pregnant.<\/span>But when Storm was 28 weeks pregnant, she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cI got my diagnosis, and it was, \u2018You save my baby, and then you save me,\u201d she said.<\/span>She contacted ABCD days after her diagnosis with a \u201claundry list\u201d of things she would need in a mentor. She wanted someone who was young and pregnant with a similar diagnosis to her own.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>And ABCD delivered.<\/span>Her mentor, Lisa Armitage, was exactly what Storm was looking for. Armitage had battled breast cancer while young and pregnant, and not only had she beaten cancer, but her child was also healthy and thriving.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>
\n<\/span>Armitage lives just minutes away from Storm, and they were matched together within just a day or two of Storm reaching out to ABCD. They were able to text and meet up in person multiple times.<\/span>\u201cI can\u2019t say enough about the comfort that you\u2019re gonna find with the ABCD program,\u201d Storm said, \u201c\u2019cause they are gonna match you up with someone that you can meet face-to-face who has walked the path. They\u2019re living proof that you can beat this.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: YouTube\/TODAY\u2019S TMJ4<\/span>Storm is now cancer-free, and her little girl is healthy and adorable!<\/span>Take a look at this video to learn more!<\/span>Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having a mentor while going through a breast cancer diagnosis can be incredibly helpful. Your medical needs are a priority, but so is your mental health. When you are able to talk with someone regularly who is going through the same thing you are and has beaten it, they can offer immeasurable emotional support.One organization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44353,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions\/44353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}