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@Mel HopkinsI was stunned to learn about the loss of your daughter and find myself at a loss for words to express how sorry I am. just know that, as a parent, I empathize with what you must be experiencing and I sympathize with and admire how you are handling this tragedy. Why I am still here, doing nothing but taking up space, and a young vital woman with so much to offer the world is taken, is something I have trouble resigning myself to. and I'm weary from trying to sort it all out. And although certainly not to the extent that you are going through I, too, am having issues with the medical community after having recently had a cataract removed from my left eye. My complaint has to do with ageism, and feelings that I am being exploited because I have Medicare and medical insurance and am looked upon as a cash cow, being scheduled for unnecessary duplicating procedures, and pressured into having follow-ups, and additional surgery which at my age is a waste of time and money and more trouble than it's worth! Anyhow, - glad you checked in with us. Stay strong. 🫶

Condolences sista @Mel Hopkins on the loss of your Baby Girl. May her soul rest in power.🙏🏿 Cancer is definitely a major money grab. The number of *survivors* is a fraction of those who end up dead from the disease. The fundraising, research, treatments, surgeries, hospital stays, medications and funeral expenses generate a lot of money. Cancer has been around for over 6,000 years and counting. There's no cure for a reason. Follow the money.😎

Despite the diagnosis, Ananda Lewis looks great for her age. I remember her from back in the 90s when she actually started off on BET's Teen Summit....before going to MTV and running around in bikinis...lol. Mel At first I was hoping that the commentary above the video was from and about someone else, but when I took a good look at the woman in that picture...especially the eyebrows and the mouth...I realize it was your daughter you were talking about. Very very sad to hear about your daughter but even more sad for YOU. Atleast your daughter doesn't have to deal with it anymore and is in a better place, but YOU...part of the living...have to continue to think about and deal with this the best way you can until you two are united again. I think a lot of the problem is acceptance. Even when they're diagnosed early, a lot of people don't want to accept treatment because they're in denial and hope that it "goes away" or gets better (which diseases often do) or just don't want to think about it. This delays treatment. They say Black women tend to have more aggressive forms of breast cancer, which I find very suspicious because the explanations they give don't make a lot of sense.

In October, I lost my youngest twin daughter to breast cancer. She didn't have health insurance when she found out. Still, she got health insurance through Obamacare (Affordable Care Act.) Several months after cancer treatments, she went into remission after treatments. Still, she refused radiation because there was a possibility of leaving her mentally and physically disabled. By then, the cost of her treatment was nearly a quarter of a million dollars, a poisoned and mutilated body. She lost so much, but she refused to give up her way of life. The cancer treatments didn't extinguish her light, though. She was still helping others see what a gift life was to them and how they could use it to lift others up. When the cancer returned, this time to her brain, she again chose life, submitting herself to brain surgery and another quarter of a million dollars. She came through with flying colors, and two days later, we were sitting across from each other at this beautiful restaurant. A month after her brain surgery, my dear BabyGirl was brain dead. Before the doctor removed her breathing tube, her family, friends, and her former boyfriend made it to her bedside. We had her funeral right there, and a month later, my BabyGirl's Twin sister and her best friend threw the most incredible Celebration of Life for her. We miss...I miss her terribly. However, it didn't change how I feel about the way the establishment treats cancer. It is a money-maker for the healthcare industry at the cost of lives, whether we survive for a few years or die. In January, a month after what would have been my daughter's 33rd birthday, a debt-collecting attorney for the hospital sent a bill for $300,000 to her estate. I've always given cancer treatments the side-eye. I'm not even into the SGK "pink" tober bullsh*t. I wondered what was the point of all that poison, disfigurement, mutilation, and radiation that ended with my daughter's untimely death. Btw, I don't say "eff cancer" because cancer cells are very personal - cancer is your DNA which is why no one can catch it from another. And just like you want to live, so do your cancer cells. Kill cancer cells, and you will most likely kill your noncancerous cells, too. Cancer cells are just doing what any living thing does, which exists and even thrive. Except cancer cells eventually kill their host. So, keep your cortisol low, and take your wealth and health treatment seriously. Your health, wealth, and quality of life are on the line. Below are three journalists, two of whom have tackled breast cancer differently. Ananda Lewis, by the way, decided to do nothing in the beginning and is also against mastectomy and is in stage 4 cancer -(which means cancer has spread throughout her body - death is imminent.) However, she's still here, and she did alternative therapies. These three women express many things I want to share in this post, but they deliver it way better.