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Volunteer for Life: Chuck Beard
By Chuck Beard, volunteer This year, if my math doesn’t fail me, marks my sixth year as a running coach for Gilda’s Gang. I don’t consider myself a coach or a runner so saying that out loud or writing that here feels funny to me. I’m just a regular guy who likes to jog to...
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Taking Care of Caregivers at Gilda’s Club
By Caitlyn Holland, member I wasn’t one of those girls who had been planning her wedding day since she was seven, but I knew what I wanted. At our age, Pete and I had been to enough weddings to know what we liked and didn’t, and of the two of us, I’m the type-A, agenda-toting...
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Bearing the Unbearable Together
By Hal Potts, member That room. I couldn’t believe I was sitting in that room in Gilda’s Club. I learned about Gilda’s Club six years ago when my best friend Danny developed brain cancer and died six months later. I had set up a CaringBridge website for him and three years later, to my complete shock my...
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Living the Dream
Why are all these people being released and I am still stuck in this room? This is not a good sign. Something must be wrong. I would later realize this would become a very normal feeling and occurrence. This being in a constant state of waiting or limbo. When I mention limbo, I’m not talking...
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