PROMISE ME: REVIEW AND BONUS GIVEAWAY ENTRIES
How the Sister's Love Launched theGlobal Movement to End Breast Cancer
BY NANCY G. BRINKER
REMEMBER ABOUT THE BOOK:
Suzy as good as Nancy Goodman were some-more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, as good as partners in the grand adventure of life. For 3 decades, zero could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; 3 painful years later, during thirty-six, she died.
It wasnt ostensible to be this way. The Goodman girls were lifted in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by relatives who believed which small acts of gift could shift the world. Suzy was the large sisterthe homecoming black with an spreading unrestrained as good as the generous heart. Nancy was the small sisterthe hoyden with an outsized clarity of probity who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters common makeup tips, dating secrets, skeleton for glamorous fantasy careers. They outlayed the single memorable summer in Europe finding the large universe far from Peoria. They illusory the prolonged hold up togetherone in which theyd grow old together surrounded by children as good as grandchildren. Suzys diagnosis cracked which dream.
In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in tarnish as good as shame. Nobody talked about early detection as good as mammograms. Nobody could even say the words breast as good as cancer together in respectful company, let alone upon radio headlines broadcasts. With Nancy during her side, Suzy endured the most indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes o! f well-m eaning though misinformed doctors. Thats when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To guarantee to finish the silence. To guarantee to lift money for scientific research. To guarantee to the single day heal breast cancer for good. Big, shoot-for-the-moon promises which Nancy never dreamed she could fulfill. But she betrothed since this was her beloved sister. we promise, Suzy. . . . Even if it takes the rest of my life.
Suzys deathboth intolerable as good as senselesscreated the deep pain in Nancy which never entirely went away. But she shortly found the utilitarian outlet for her pique as good as outrage. Armed only with the shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her challenging fund-raising talents to work as good as quickly detected the groundswell of grassroots support. She was aided in her goal by the loving tutelage of her husband, restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, whose energetic approach to entrepreneurship became Nancys indication for using her foundation. Her account of how she as good as Norman met, fell in love, as good as managed to achieve the elusive true matrimony of equals is the single of the good grown-up adore stories among recent memoirs.
Nancys goal to shift the approach the universe talked about as good as treated breast cancer took upon added coercion when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, the terrifying chapter in her hold up which she had prolonged feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived as good as went upon to have Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential illness gift in the country as good as arguably the world. A pioneering force in cause-related marketing, SGK turned the pink badge into the symbol of goal everywhere. Each year, millions of people worldwide take partial in SGK Race for the Cure events. And thanks to the some-more than $1.5 billion outlayed by SGK for cutting-edge investigate as good as village programs, the breast cancer diagnosis currently is no longer the genoc! ide sent ence. In fact, in the time since Suzys death, the five-year presence rate for breast cancer has risen from 74 percent to 98 percent.
Promise Me is the deeply relocating story of family as good as sisterhood, the thespian 30,000-foot view of the democratization of the disease, as good as the soaring certain to the question: Can the single chairman indeed have the difference?
MY REVIEW:
PROMISE ME by Nancy G. Brinker is the story we won't shortly forget. Many of us know of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure substructure as good as all the good work this non-profit classification has finished over the years though not most know the genuine story at the behind of it. Nancy Brinker who has been the driving force at the behind of this classification from the start, tells the story in this book. PROMISE ME not only tells how Nancy built the Susan G. Komen Foundation though the details of how she got people concerned as good as how she keeps it starting until this day. All of this is fascinating though the genuine story in PROMISE ME starts with Nancy as good as her sister, Susan; the genuine reason for this classification in the initial place.
Brinker describes her hold up story which has been built around the plain family which she as good as Susan were the partial of. In the initial partial of the book, Nancy tells about her relationship with Susan as good as about her sisters zest for life. She reveals how Susan enjoyed hold up as good as was much similar to their father, the chairman who regularly volunteered in so most ways as good as additionally was only innately dedicated to assisting others. Nancy says of her sister Susan, which similar to their father, she never met the chairman she didnt feel was the friend. Nancy, upon the alternative hand, adored their mom who was the very strong-minded, ambitious, as good as reasonable, while never shy about carrying to push the co! mplement in order to accomplish the single of her positive goals. Even though the girls relatives had opposite personalities, they were the loving couple who instilled in their children the significance of the worth of family, as good as carrying adore as good as apply oneself for any other, even if their views differed. They were wonderful relatives as good as helped the girls to see the worth of being eccentric thinkers while respecting others views as well. Family was everything to them.
The book additionally tells of Nancy as good as her former husband, Norman Brinker, who gave her so much in the approach of how to classify as good as run the business. They met as good as fell deeply in adore as good as were the good support as good as inspiration to any other. Normans thought of using the business for the people as good as not only for the business finish of it alone, showed Nancy how which would regularly be of good good to all in the end. He was the good e.g. to Nancy upon how to treat your employees similar to family as good as the benefits we would reap in some-more than the single approach as the outcome of that. Much of the success of the Susan G. Komen Foundation is the outcome of what Nancy learned from Norman Brinker as good as how she put it in action in successfully using the organization.
The story goes upon to describe the deep as good as loving down payment in between the sisters. It tells of Susans beast cancer diagnosis in 1977 as good as how during the time, people didnt even speak about breast cancer. There in the early 1980s, the treatments were awful as good as there was no cure. Nancy watched her sister humour as good as she betrothed her which she would fight to have breast cancer recognition the genuine priority. Only 3 years later, Susan died as good as Nancy had her cause, as good as she went after it full steam. It additionally tells of the horror of Nancy herself finding she had breast cancer though this was years after as good as she is now the survivor. This was o! nly the single some-more thing which spurred her upon in her cause.
The book goes upon to describe the story as good as major accomplishments over the years which have come about in breast cancer research, treatment, as good as cures. Many breast cancer survivors stories are in the book as good as it additionally includes the story of volunteers who give everything they have to assistance this cause. Starting with $200 as good as the few contacts, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure has lifted some-more than 1.5 billion dollars to give for breast cancer investigate as good as the formula are hopeful. Statistically, people never realized for instance which roughly 340,000 women died during the ten year period of the Viet Nam War, while we sadly additionally mislaid over 58,000 use men. Yet, those women werent discussed behind then. Great strides of march have been done currently as good as yet, we still have about 40,000 women who die any year from Breast Cancer...still! How can we let this continue? We cant, as good as if celebration of the mass Nancys book, PROMISE ME does zero some-more than have we aware which we must get yourself checked, which is the start. Hopefully, it will additionally enthuse we to be similar to Susan as good as her father, as good as obviously Nancy of course, as good as see how YOU can assistance others. What partial can we fool around in this battle? Can we lay by as good as not wish to assistance find the Cure? we think not as good as any chairman who reads this book will come divided with their own approach of assisting though they additionally will come divided not forgetting what they have read.
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