Patty Fugate
A little over a year ago I started a journey I wasn’t sure about and had struggled with all of my adult life trying to decide if I wanted to take the journey. That journey was being tested for the hereditary cancer genes. After many years I fought my fears and decided I need to stop being selfish and find out not for myself but my children. That decision was the best decision I have ever made and now I look back and think all those years of the fear could have been prevented. I now know I have the gene and have already taken steps to rid the chance of two of the cancers I carry the gene for. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
A few months after my journey began my beautiful daughter Brittany Fugate joined the journey with me and she too was carrying the same hereditary cancer gene. Both of us decided to have preventive surgery. Before the surgery, we did lots of research from talking to some beautiful breast cancer survivors that were wonderful with advice about the process. We also researched things we would need after surgery and one of the items that were so helpful was the pillow that my Aunt Myrtle Fugate made for us.
Our doctors and nurses fell in love with our pillow and pockets. One day at our visit Dr. Stewart said you guys need to start making these and selling them and the nurse agreed. So the wheels starting turning and we both looked at each other and said no we will donate them.
So another journey begins!
