Robin Roberts - My SHERO
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She is such a beautiful woman, but I have especially noticed this now since she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her skin is flawless...even though she has professional make-up artists, her texture of skin is beautiful.
I too was always blessed with nice skin, but it became even nicer and softer when I was on chemo. My skin was like a newborn baby...and always felt like silk...now picture that.
Anyway, just wanted to say that I admire Robin and that she is my SHERO
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Just finished looking at her exerpt on GMA and it bought back so many memories. My girlfriend videotaped me getting my hair buzzed by her sister (who is a stylist), and I have yet to look at that video. But looking at Robin made me cry...because I was flooded with memories and understood when she spoke of how Diane Sawyer just looked at her eyes when she saw her for the first time being bald. I remember that too, because when my ex-husband and son saw me the first time being bald, they NEVER blinked an eye, and as a matter of fact we were together because there was an issue going on with our son and we were sitting around talking about it. After he left, I called him to ask him why he didn't comment on my bald head, and he very sweetly said, "your hair is not you, and it will grow back". I had been hiding my baldness from my son and it too had been his first time seeing me bald and I asked his dad why he never said anything about it. He told me he talked to my son about it and he told him not to make me feel bad about being bald and to this day my son has never mentioned it.
So like Robin said, just a person talking to you and looking in your eyes is really important to us...just her saying that broke my heart, not in a bad way, but it just made me remember.
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Robin has always been a very intelligent , courageous , honest woman. I have enjoyed her on GMA for many years. I am also a fan of her on the court . I played basketball for years , through college and she has been my hero for a long while.She has handled the beast called breast cancer with such grace and poise it is amazing. I pray for her continued strength and I am so grateful our daughters have such a powerful role model. Benita
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Robin is breaking the silence of breast cancer, especially in the African American community. For years we have hid our illnesses because of our fears of being stigmatized. By Robin being open about her diagnosis, women from all cultures can witness that breast cancer diagnosis does not necessarily mean an automatic death sentence.
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I am not African American and hope you don't think I'm trying to butt in here, but I truly adore Robin and can't pass up the opportunity to say so! She is my SHERO as well, a woman of true dignity, compassion and courage!
~Marin
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Marin,
All are welcome here, my friend! I know you admire her so I was kinda wondering what took you so long to post, lol... -
This is going to sound silly but I cried harder when I found out Robin Roberts had cancer and any time they talked about it on GMA I just started crying like a baby. I missed the morning when she was talking about losing her hair and hope to see it. And of course I will cry hard again. She is just so ....amazing and I think she is the greastest and she has a wicked sense of humour I just enjoy.
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Hi Marin...you are most certainly welcome here...as is everyone else. Most of us love Robin and most of all...hope she is doing well.
Sheri
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Thanks, y'all. I follow Robin every day and get upset if they don't tell us where she is. Of course, I know that Thursdays are her chemo days and, so, on Mondays I eagerly await her return and give her a good looking-over to see if she's alright. How insane is that??! Geez, I need a life....or at least a grandchild!
I just love her though!
~Marin
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Hi Marin...Isn't that funny...I do the same thing too. I even get up close to the tv to see if she looks okay. I KNOW I need a life...lol
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Hi Shari...I guess I'm beside you checking out to see if Robin is ok on GMA as well.;-)_ Truely, we are sisters looking out for one another. Take care.
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Hello Snow...I was reading these boards & making a comment about Robin Roberts. Just happened to notice we were dx- on the same date. What a thing to have in common. Hope you had a good holiday. Lee in NC.
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Wow; shocking wasn't it. Wish we would have known about this board on that date. I remember shock then denial, then calling my sisters to alert them to get mammograms right away. The worst was telling my sons, weird to think back to those days they seem so far away but really aren't. I guess it's all the treatments since then. How are you doing? And how were your treatments, I'm in rads now and just posted on the triple neg board having a bit of a scare right now. Lets hope we can both beat this bc down, down, down.
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I'm doing pretty good. Today was my 15th rad tx. Already 15 down and only 16 more to go.;-) Just trying to do the suggested things my Rads Onc suggested make this a smooth process. I sure hope the rest don't give me many challenges. I'll go to the boards to see what you typed on the triple negs.
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Just had to add a note...my surgeon called on July 30 w/ my diagnosis, and Robin announced on the 31st that she had been diagnosed. While I was still in that sort of surreal state--"What??! Cancer?! Me??!!"--I know Robin was going through the same thing.
She is the coolest lady ever, and I'm so glad she seems to be doing well.
Happy, healthy 2008 to all!
Lynn
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Hi Lynn. GMA was reflecting on the year this morning on one of their segments. One of the men shared that Robin's Mother got her to go public with her story. The other anchor did not know that was why she did. Her mom told her she must since she could maybe help so many others. Moms are often right most of the time. I was glad to know that she still listens to her Mother's advice.:-)
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It's funny. Just today, I watched and listened to Robin's segment where she shaved her head. I cried. We've been there. But she showed it. One of the things she said was how her mother said something like how she can turn her 'mess' into a message. And now she's bringing her message forward.
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robin has been such an inspiration to all of us- i had the pleasure of meeting robin right after she was diagnosed on the set of gma and we talked about bc together and she was just like of all of us -concerned about everything that was ahead of her- well robin has handled it all so incredibly well especially being in the public eye as she is - i thank her for everything she has done for bringing valuable information to everyone who watches her show she is really quite beautiful in person inside and out
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She looks so beautiful and her hair is gorgeous!
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