Love Always
255 Zion Road K0K2C0 Frankford, ON, Canada

I know Donna was dearly loved by all her nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews - especially when she pretended to be eaten by a boa constrictor...

Tom Gibney was being treated by the Cancer Centre at Lakeridge Health Oshawa when Donna was having radiation there in March/April 2018.

I just wanted to thank all of you for supporting my book about Donna's battle with Triple Negative Breast Cancer and to ask a favour, if I may. If you've read the book and you haven't done so already, could you please go on Goodreads, leave a comment about "Love Always" and rate the book - a link is provided below. The challenge now is to promote the book to help raise money for the health care organizations that supported Donna during her 18-month cancer journey. Thanks so much! John https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56246760-love-always

I am posting this anonymously. I've copied it from a TNBC Group site... "I’d like to share one thing I learned on this journey which is to make the best of my scary journey through humor. It took me months to reach this point. However I decided I did enough crying and screaming and decided to humor myself. I had faith which truly helped me. Im posting a picture of me at my lowest. When I felt so horrible and then while I was watching Adams Family I told myself I looked li...ke Uncle Fester! I took a side by side picture of us both and I sent it to my family and best friends. We all laughed. I knew the day would come when I’d start to somewhat look like me again. Nothing is forever. Looking back now, I can’t believe how time flies and how much I endured and still am. I look back now and I can honestly say... I love me. Before, during, and after. Ladies we are warriors! Strong and beautiful! Our scars and story will help others. We will overcome anything that comes our way. I posted pics of exactly pre, and post this journey I never saw coming. I hope you laugh a little! Sometimes we have to just laugh at life. I no longer say why me I say try me! Love to my pink sisters. We are in this together!" See more

I am posting this anonymously. I've copied it from a TNBC Group site. I am sure it reflects how all women feel when they get a diagnosis of breast cancer. "I just want to know if others can relate. I'm 40, diagnosed stage III TNBC on 09/07/20. I just finished chemo 2 weeks ago and my DMX is scheduled for 4/13. So far all signs point to me having a great response to chemo. I'm usually a very easy going, positive person, and I've continued to project this way to others for th...e past 7 months, but inside I am mentally preoccupied with thoughts of my own death. I feel like the day I was diagnosed, I was told how I was going to die and that I was going to die pretty darn young. Most people want the gentle die in our sleep death, right? Nobody wants to die of cancer right? I feel doomed, and maybe it's because I'm triple negative, but I can't seem to shake the feeling like I'm going to get out of this round of cancer and I'm going to find myself with a Stage IV recurrence sometime in the next few years. I have an 18-year-old daughter who is my best friend and I've found myself just pleading with God, saying, "Not yet. Please not yet." I want to see her get married one day and I want to hold a grandchild. I try not to let my mind go there, but when I do, the waterworks come out in full force. I'm preoccupied with with what will happen to my daughter if I can't be around for these moments. My dad died of cancer when I was six years old. I've had to go through all of my big life moments without him and I can't bear the thought of my daughter having to face the same. Thanks for listening. I needed to really put this down in words. I've made little comments to my mom and my family here and there about my death... Mostly they're sarcastic, gallows humor-type comments, but it really upsets them, so I've pretty much kept this in the past 7 months. I have a CT scan scheduled for next week, so those dark thoughts are starting to churn up again. Does anyone feel these same things? Everybody around me wants me to have this fighter mentality, so I try to be that way, but do some of you feel like no matter how much you fight, that it isn't going to make a damn bit of difference and cancer is going to just win in the end?" Thanks for reading this...

My love story, I would say it was rather unique.

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Hospice Quinte is one of the seven "Love Always" charities. Royalties from every book purchased go support the health care organizations that support Donna during her battle with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). You can also donate directly to these charities from the "Love Always" webpage on my website. Here's a link: https://www.johncharlescorrigan.com/about-the.../love-always Thank you!

Trust me, I know...

It was three years ago today that Donna had her mastectomy. If you've read "Love Always", you know what a courageous decision that was for Donna to make, as it is for any woman facing surgery as an option. As a caregiver, I was uncertain of my role and worried I might do something wrong. Fortunately, there was plenty of support and everything went well for both of us. P.S. The band Train was Donna's favourite, so I included the image below with the lyrics to their song, When... I Look To The Sky, as the last page of "Love Always". Although it's not unusual to hear their songs on the radio, you're not likely to hear one every day. So it caught my attention when I heard at least one Train song on each of the last five days--Sunday and Monday at a friend's place, Tuesday at the car dealership, Wednesday at home and yesterday in the dentist's office... See more

The "print ready" files have been signed off! It's only a matter of days before "Love Always" will be available to purchase in one of three formats, i.e. paperback, hardcover and e-book. Stay tuned... https://books.friesenpress.com//John-Charles-Corrigan-Love

COMING SOON! "Love Always" now has it's own FriesenPress Online Bookstore webpage. It won't be much longer until it's available to purchase! Please share with your FB friends. Here's a link to the webpage... https://books.friesenpress.com/sto/title/119734000157036010

Progress Update (11/01/2020) "Love Always" is in the PUBLICATION QUEUE. It should be available within 14 days. TIME TO SPREAD THE NEWS. How can you help? Please share this post with your friends and invite them to like this "Love Always" Facebook page. Last time you did, the post reached1,628 people. Remember all royalties from the sale of "Love Always" go to support the health care facilities mentioned in the book! Thank you!

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