Losing A Buddy
It is with great sadness that I write about losing a Buddy, Pearl Thomas-Dyer.
I first met Pearl in 1999, when she was featured in a Buddy Check 9 report on an anniversary celebrating the launch of the G-W Mobile Mammography Unit, the Mammovan.
As you know, the van provides underinsured women an opportunity to have a low-cost or FREE mammogram. If something is found, women are then referred for treatment. Pearl was one of those women. The mammogram found something, Pearl received treatment and was doing well. I kept in touch with Pearl over the years through daily inspirational messages she sent to all on her email chain.
I did a follow up on Pearl 2-years ago, but earlier this year , she wrote that the cancer had returned and she was in a tough fight. The cancer had spread from her breast to her lungs and on up to her brain. Her family tells me as recent as one week and three day's ago, Pearl found the cancer had now spread to her spine.
Pearl died Wednesday morning. She never lost hope; she never lost her faith in God. That faith sustained her to the very end.
Please keep Pearl's family and all who are in a daily fight with this disease in your thoughts and prayers .
To see and hear Pearl Thomas-Dyer's 2005 interview with Buddy Check 9 click here.
And search the Buddy Check archives.
Take care,
Andrea
I first met Pearl in 1999, when she was featured in a Buddy Check 9 report on an anniversary celebrating the launch of the G-W Mobile Mammography Unit, the Mammovan.
As you know, the van provides underinsured women an opportunity to have a low-cost or FREE mammogram. If something is found, women are then referred for treatment. Pearl was one of those women. The mammogram found something, Pearl received treatment and was doing well. I kept in touch with Pearl over the years through daily inspirational messages she sent to all on her email chain.
I did a follow up on Pearl 2-years ago, but earlier this year , she wrote that the cancer had returned and she was in a tough fight. The cancer had spread from her breast to her lungs and on up to her brain. Her family tells me as recent as one week and three day's ago, Pearl found the cancer had now spread to her spine.
Pearl died Wednesday morning. She never lost hope; she never lost her faith in God. That faith sustained her to the very end.
Please keep Pearl's family and all who are in a daily fight with this disease in your thoughts and prayers .
To see and hear Pearl Thomas-Dyer's 2005 interview with Buddy Check 9 click here.
And search the Buddy Check archives.
Take care,
Andrea
posted by andrea roane @ 8:28 AM
2 Comments:
At September 20, 2007 3:32 PM,
Susan Waldron said…
I have been a co-worker of Pearl for the last 9 years. Pearl was an inspiration to everyone who was lucky enough to call her a friend. I will miss her every day for the rest of my life. She was a wonderful friend and I feel blessed to have had the honor of being her friend.
I love you Pearl,
Susan
At September 20, 2007 5:05 PM,
Evelyn Wills said…
Hi Andrea:
Not only did I work with Pearl, she was my FRIEND and she will be truly missed. I still can't believe that she is gone. She was such a STRONG person in her fight that it has changed they way I look at things in life. She was so funny, smart, great sense of humor and her spirit was always glowing when I would see her in the office. I mean I can't explain in words how I am going to miss her. Personally not knowing how cancer can make someone suffer, and you here different stories of people suffering from this disease, but she never showed that side of her. Her faith in GOD and her will to live helped her beat this for as long as God wanted her here on this earth. Now she is with her maker and I can say that I BELIEVE that she has earned her WINGS. PEARL YOU WILL BE MISSED!
Love your co-worker and FRIEND
Evelyn Wills
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