Article: Here Now: Cancer survivor embraces holistic lifestyle

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Here Now: Cancer survivor embraces holistic lifestyle

 

By Si Cantwell, Staff Writer

Saturday, April 4, 2009

 

On Easter Sunday last year, the Star-News ran a personal account

written by former City Councilwoman Pat Delair about her struggle with

Stage IV ovarian cancer and other issues. We illustrated the story

with an extreme close-up of her, bald and without eyebrows.

 

“I do not believe the cancer is going to shorten my life,” she wrote.

“I have further work to do, maybe not here politically, but perhaps

speaking up for ovarian cancer awareness or some other cause. It will

find me.”

 

It has found her.

 

Delair says she’s healthier today than when she wrote those words. Her

hair is back, though more salt-and-pepper than blond these days.

 

She works with her doctors, but she put herself in charge of her own

recovery.

 

She spent nine weeks in West Palm Beach, Fla., in the health educator

program at the Hippocrates Health Institute, learning to teach people

how a healthful diet and balancing the needs of mind, body and spirit

can result in improved health.

 

Full story:

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090404/COLUMNIST/904049968/1177?Title=He\

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