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In Memory Of My Mother, Lucille Fell.
At age 14 to be awakened in the middle of the night, a sense of urgency filled our house at around 2am, a night I will never forget. These words echoed in my heart and soul till this very day, "Brian it’s time" your mom needs you by her side to say goodbye. So much goes though your mind as you hold hands with the most important person in my life, my Mom. As each breath passed to a progressing slower pattern, tears and sorrow filled my parent’s room where my mother was in hospice for her final days. A small whisper in her ear to a final cry of sadness and fright, not wanting to let her go, but so happy her days of pain are close to being over.
The tears still stream down my face as a 30 year old man. A son who will always remember his mom Lucille as my guardian angel who will forever look over me and my siblings. My mom is a woman of strength and beauty, a woman who battled terminal breast cancer for over 2 ½ years.
She is a woman who will remain in my heart as my loving mom, who could do no wrong, and whose life was taken at such an early point in time to a disease that has no mercy!
Love Always,
Brian Fell
Design Consultant
Washington, DC
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Advanced Radiology Testimonial for Steps to the Cure
As the largest provider of mammograms in Maryland, our mammographers and technologists work every day with women who have just been diagnosed with breast cancer. New digital mammography has allowed us to find cancer sooner in younger women, and to help them get treatment at the earliest possible stages. It can be an emotionally challenging, but incredibly rewarding job. We’re happy to see so many exciting new initiatives to prevent and treat breast cancer.
We’re proud to sponsor this exciting new event as well as the Maryland Komen Race for the Cure. Together, we’re all making an impact on breast cancer, and helping it to become a less devastating diagnosis. Thanks for your contribution to the cause!
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In Loving Memory of Lesley Garelick
Tonight, we know the women coming down the Steps to the Cure catwalk are survivors.
We also know, as we see our models go by -- full of life, and radiance -- that many of the women hit by breast cancer do not survive it.
Many women pass, and their loved ones, too, are left behind -- different kinds of survivors, when once-whole immediate families lose a mother, or a sister.
These loved ones go on – sons, daughters, brothers, husbands -- many of whom -- in their loved one’s passing, are spurred to work towards the cure with organizations such as The Larry and Lori Lickstein Foundation, and movements such as Steps to the Cure, fighting on the front lines to eradicate breast cancer.
In November of 2003, Lesley Garelick, the best friend, soul mate, and wife of Steven Garelick, and mother of two gorgeous children – Seth and Abby -- lost her own battle with breast cancer.
Lesley could have been one of the beautiful models here tonight, but she is someplace else now -- at a different party, enjoying an afterlife, we would all like to think.
Lesley’s husband Steve Garelick is here with us tonight, a committed advocate and active fighter in the effort to end breast cancer. Thank you so much Steve, for being with us here tonight.
We owe tremendous respect and gratitude to Steve and thousands of advocates like him across the country, who keep fighting -- so we can all go on and, as he says, “Look at life and appreciate each and every day as never before.”
Kindred spirits, Lesley and Steve. In a letter written before breast cancer took her life, Lesley wrote:
“Though the road ahead may still be a bit bumpy, I know that I can take this path feeling empowered and knowing that I will not only survive but come out of this with a greater appreciation of all that life has to offer. If cancer had to happen, I’m going to make sure that when it’s all said and done that my life will be more joyful than I ever allowed before. And, I hope that in turn I’ll be able to touch you’re lives in a way that brings you joy.”
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