IAL Reports

35 New Laryngectomees Nationwide with the unforunate demise eight members during the past month.

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ORAL, HEAD AND NECK CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

"HEAD AND NECK CANCER SUPPORT GROUP" If you or a loved one has been touched by an oral head and neck cancer diaanosis were-here for you. No Pressure Just Support April 2nd, 7:00pm ECHN/Eastern Connecticut Cancer Institute John A. DeQuattro Cancer Center 100 Haynes Street Manchester, CT 06040 Meetings are held the 1rst Monday of every month. - - -FIRST Floor Conference Room To register or for additional information contact Alice Nadeau 860-268-3963 www.oralheadandneckcancer.com SPONSERED BY: American Cancer Society .1-800-227-2345 ECHN/Eastern Connecticut Cancer Institute

Renna Roberts age 19 becomes a young Laryngectomee

HOW YOU’RE LIKE A PENCIL

Do you know that you are like a pencil? Here's how:

1. Like a pencil, you can correct your mistakes. You can't change the past,
but you can rectify it. And though you can't erase history, you can erase
guilt and anger with forgiveness.

2. Like a pencil, painful sharpening can serve to make you better. Your
difficult times can actually sharpen your skills or shape you into the
person you were meant to be.

3. Like a pencil, you can do great things when you allow yourself to be
held in someone's hand.

4. Like a pencil, you can leave your mark whenever possible. That is what
you're here for -- to leave your mark. It may be in small ways, it may
be in the lives of people you have touched or nurtured, but you must
leave something good behind whenever you can.

5. Like a pencil, it is what is on the inside that matters. Whether it is
understanding or intolerance, love or bitterness, peace or unrest, kindness
or self-centeredness, hope or despair, courage or fear, what is on the
inside matters most.
Next time you use a pencil, pause and think about that little
writing tool. It teaches some great lessons about living.
---Submitted by:

Marlene Haynes and Rudy Dupler

HEAD AND NECK CANCER

If you or a loved one has been touched by an oral head and
neck c-ancer diagnosis we're here tor you - --
No Pressure Just Support
March 5, at 7:00pm
ECHN/Eastern Connecticut Cancer Institute
John A. DeQuattro Cancer Center
1 00 Haynes Street
Manchester, CT 06040
Meetings are held the 1st Monday of every month.
-,st Floor 'Conference -Room- -- - - -
To register or for additional information contact:
Alice Nadeau 860-268-3963 www.oralheadandneckcancer.com


Sponsered by The -----American Cancer Society .1-800-227-2345
ECHN/Eastern Connecticut Cancer Institute