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Gilda’s Club Nashville Announces Name Change
Gilda’s Club Nashville Announces Name Change, Program Expansion and Challenge Grant NASHVILLE, TENN. – Gilda’s Club Nashville, an affiliate of the Cancer Support Community, announces its name change to Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee and program expansion to better serve the community’s growing population within and beyond Davidson County. The change is effective July 1, 2017. A Tennessee-based...
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Support for the Whole Family
By Heather Parham, member To date, I am a six time survivor of a rare cancer called Metastatic Myxoid Vulvar Sarcoma. I have had chemo several times, radiation once of a brain tumor and again on my chest for my lung, and too many surgeries to mention. When I was first diagnosed in 1993, Gilda’s...
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Janey Street & Friends Performs for Benefit of Gilda’s Club Nashville
Janey Street performed to a full house last week at City Winery Nashville in support of her new album, My Side of Paradise available now on Blue Élan Records. The show opened, as many Nashville gigs do, with a roundtable of eminently talented singer-songwriters sharing their most recent compositions as well as their biggest hits. The night was...
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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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