The Purple Dragon Slayer
^When I first started my research I wanted to slay this bastard^
IT Will Never Be The Same
By CBS News October 14, 2015, 5:00 AM
After breast cancer, “I won’t ever be the same. And that’s OK.”
She thought about potato chips. During the hardest parts of her 15-day, 467-mile run — Davina McNaney thought about potato chips. She also daydreamed about taking epsom salt baths and hugging her two young daughters at the finish line. And she thought about the day more than three years before, when she found out she had breast cancer.
McNaney was at home with her younger daughter when the phone rang in October 2012. She had gotten her first mammogram just a few weeks earlier. The doctors asked her to come back for a second mammogram and biopsy. McNaney didn’t think much of it. Although some members of her extended family had breast cancer, Davina’s mother and grandmother did not. Plus, she was also feeling fine and in great shape — she’d just completed a 40-mile race on her 40th birthday. But the nurse on the other end of the line explained McNaney’s biopsy showed DCIS, or ductal carcinoma in situ — the presence of abnormal cells inside the milk duct in the breast.
From Hell to Inspired
Another goal has been reached!
It is such a sweet feeling to be able to climb your way to the top, when you were not even supposed to be able to walk on your own too feet! People were looking at me like I was a bit off, and I am! I walked the whole way to the top barefoot! Obviously far from “normal”. Now they have something to talk about. A few people asked me why and I told them that it was healing and regenerating, and they sounded intrigued. Next time who knows? A new trend might be on its way!
3 years ago I had to use a wheelchair to move more than 10 feet to go anywhere. I spent several years in bed, being wheeled around from the car to my room, when I was well enough to be carried on to a plain. I broke that spell by traveling to Florida by myself, now camping alone in the wild, and today, stretching even more. Reaching higher and higher. The body has no limit. I am growing younger. More on that later ladies. Being 51 is the new 30 for me!
Unsinkable Determination
Then, in June 2014, Van Dyken’s spirited nature and active lifestyle were tested when a near-fatal ATV accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Are You This Tough
Gabrielle Anderson – She is that tough!
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Gabrielle Anderson was a Minnesota state champion in the 800 meters and earned all-state honors four times in cross country while attending Perham High School. She earned scholarship to the University of Minnesota, and where she qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships three times, the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships two times, and earned All-Big Ten Conference honors five times.