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Survivor Celebration

 

We will be celebrating survivorship this Spring in Johnson City, TN.  All Survivors and their guests are invited to a luncheon at the Holiday Inn in Johnson City on March 24, 2012 at 11:30 am.  For more information contact Katie Skelton, missioncoordinator@komentricities.org.

 

 Tri-Cities Race for the Cure® 2012

  The 7th annual Tri-Cities Race for the Cure® will be held this year on Sunday, October 21, 2012.  The Race will once again be held at Memorial Park in Kingsport, Tennessee.  Starting time for the Race will be 3:00 pm with Race related festivities beginning at noon.  Online registration for the 2012 Race will open on April 1, 2012.  So, save the date and plan to help end breast cancer forever!

 

Diana Jordan is the key-note speaker at the "Tickled Pink Survivor Celebration"

 

  Keynote speaker and veteran stand-up comedienne, Diana Jordan has been entertaining audiences for over twenty years. When Diana appeared on Oprah for the first time, Oprah Winfrey selected her as "One of the funniest people on the planet," right alongside Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams and Bill Cosby. She was on the show with her best-selling book, "A Wife's Little Instruction Book: Your Survival Guide to Marriage without Bloodshed," (Avon). The book title alone is enough to let you know that this is a woman who looks at life through her humor lens. The book obviously made the connection selling over 450,000 copies in five countries and five languages.
It was the application of humor to her own life circumstances that moved her want to share the gift of humor through motivational speaking. While caring for her mother as she battled with emphysema and heart disease during the last four years of her life, Diana's determination to make her mom laugh, dramatically improved her mother's life just as Dr. Patch Adams did with his patients. Diana and her mother both found that you can learn to have a sense of humor.

Unfortunately, Diana had to apply what she learned from the experience with her mom to herself. In 2010 she was diagnosed with breast cancer- and underwent a mastectomy. She had breast cancer reconstruction surgery-,going a cup size bigger - okay, two cup sizes bigger (still tasteful!) and when asked at the airport if she was prepared to sit in the emergency row of the airplane Diana quipped, "Don't worry, I AM the flotation device!" Diana is a living testament to how her sense of humor got her through the difficult times. "People always tell me this is my journey. If that is so and life's a journey, then I most certainly forgot to pack!"