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			<title><![CDATA[Geralyn Lucas heads back to town]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Geralyn Lucas, author of "Why I wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy" and 13-year breast cancer survivor, will be speaking once again in the Metro Detroit area.

She was 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I heard her speak last May at Oakland Hills golf course and it was an entertaining]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[I need a haircut, but what and where are still up in the air]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I've been telling myself for over a week that I need to get a hair cut. I'm not sure why it is so hard for me to make the appointment and the time. I've been kind of avoiding it. It is not that I am emotionally attached to the hair that I have, but it is more, I don't know what I want to do with it.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A few walking pictures]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[So I know that I promised a gallery of pictures, but with all the crazy news going on in Detroit, I just haven't had time. Here are a few pictures from the walk. My next long walk will be straight down Woodward to Detroit. I can't wait.


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			<pubDate>Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:36 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Walking shoes are busted]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Well, while I made it through my 15 miles on Saturday and 6 on Sunday, my shoes did not fare so well. The air pocket in the sole busted, so basically I have a big ball at the heel. I've been sidelined till I get another pair, which hopefully will be sooner than later.


My friend Tyler and I had]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Crazy busy, but feeling great]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I don't know about anyone else, but my life has been crazy busy this summer. Between work, vacations, family obligations, walking and doctor appointments, my life seems to have run away without me.


I have e-mails that have stacked up like you wouldn't believe. I don't know why it has been so]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:45 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shannon has been my inspiration]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Shannon Iezzi was my first breast cancer friend. In the beginning, she helped me understand that everything I was feeling and going through was normal. And now, she is just a pure inspiration to me. I have asked her to write some guest blogs, so she can share with all of you everything that she has]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:02 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Life is the greatest adventure]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[My latest breast cancer adventure has taught me just that - it is an adventure. There is no perfect outcome; there is no finish line. The perfect outcome would have been to have not gone through this in the first place, but that hope was squashed the second chemo started shrinking my tumor. Up till]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:42 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[I'm having surgery tomorrow]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Just call me lefty. As of tomorrow, I will only have one breast. My hopes that the burn would heal have been squashed. I have to have surgery tomorrow.

I knew things weren't right this weekend when the cream the doctor prescribed wasn't working the way he said it would. Then last night as I was]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:47 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Burnt skin is bad, but fixable]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Well good news, I won't be jumping into surgery tomorrow. I met with my plastic surgeon about my burnt skin and basically it is just that burnt skin and he wants to treat it like that.


Over the next two weeks, I will have to apply an ointment to the area and keep it bandaged. He will then]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:07 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Burned skin adds to cancer treatment plan]]></title>
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			<author>(Jodie Wilson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I knew the skin along my mastectomy scar wasn't looking right, but when my doctor's eyes bugged out of his head, I knew it was bad. I have not seen a doctor since my last radiation treatment June 2 and since then, my skin along my scar has been a scab that hasn't been quite healing. My doctor, who]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:36 AM</pubDate>
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