Cancer
In this video, Denise Messenger spends about 27 minutes speaking on "Cancer" at the 40th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
Transcription
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. They always say that they saved the best for last. So here I am. It's truly great to be here.
How many of you have ridden on a roller coaster at an amusement park? Show hands, how many of you that have would love to do it again? I think we all could agree that it can be both frightening and thrilling all at the same time, isn't it? When diagnosed with cancer, it's frightening because you don't know in which direction your life is headed. But when your cancer is cured, it certainly is a thrill to be alive as a cancer survivor and having used alternative and gentle medicine. I'm happy to be here and I want to thank you for attending this conference. Did you know that one out of every three people is projected to diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime? That's an astounding statistic. Imagine my life as a single working mother with a successful real estate career and a 17 year old son at. Then one day I found a lump under my breast. I went to the doctor and soon there was diagnosed with breast cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. We'll call it sealevel for short. I didn't know much about either one of these cancer. The breast cancer was not found in my limp nodes, but the C l l was at the time, I remember thinking, wow, I just hit the lawter. I don't even like to gamble at all about what to do. And the physical, mental and emotional toll was huge. From the time I was a teenager, I never went along with the group if they decided to try smoking. I stood and watched. If we were at a party and they were drinking, I stood around and watched. And on when I got my first job, I was happy with the status quo. I would become bored, so I would always look allergies. Look, I know that this was all preparation for the biggest challenge of my life, cancer survival many years ago. I took a trip to Lake Tahoe with my boyfriend. We stayed in that course because he liked to gamble. One night late at the gambling table and I told them I was tired and I went up. No room to go to sleep. I woke up around 7:00 morning as he walked in the door from gambling. The higher night I was reasonably up and said that since he would be sleeping most of the day, I was heading back to Los Angeles.
Later that day, he had a flight to Denver for a business meeting anyway. So