My Nonprofit Reviews

In the spring of 2006, my perfect, busy, wonderful, HEALTHY life, came to a crashing, thundering halt. One phone call on May 1st and my life changed forever..."you have cancer"....three simple words.

What followed immediately thereafter was horrific; the screams of denial from my family, my children were teenagers suddenly thrust into a situation that most do not experience until their 50's...the potential loss of a parent. Trying to find information on oral cancer was frustrating...there simply wasn't much available from the Doctors, in the library or on the web...until I found the Oral Cancer Foundation.

A few moments there, and I knew, deep down, things would be all right. When you're diagnosed with cancer, your world is suddenly filled with a lot of people; family, friends, friends of friends and family, medical professionals, and then if you're very lucky, you find the support and compassion of people who have been there....like the Oral Cancer Foundation.

These aren't a bunch of "internet experts"...these people are my FAMILY. They had walked the same path, undergone the same horrors that I went through, had the same fears, the same lack of information initially.

I fought the Beast that is oral cancer actively for a year. the following 6 years have been a blessing; seeing my children become adults, marry and have Grandchildren for me to spoil. I have the tools I need to live my life in my "new normal". When there are bumps in the road, I ALWAYS have my family at OCF to turn back to for knowledgeable advice, support and compassion. The people at OCF are different than anyone else in my new, "post cancer" life; my OCF family GET IT. They have walked in my shoes, and they understand that even with the new lease on life given to my by the amazing medical expertise around me, there would be many challenges to face. Without them, many of those challenges would have been insurmountable. With them, I know I can make it through.

Wayne Reimer
Regina, Saskatchewan

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