By Eva Marie Everson
Sometimes, the worst news becomes the pathway for the best plan. The unexpected detour becomes the road we should travel. Sometimes, we make it up as we go along and other times, life simply makes a way for purpose.
And in that “facing it,” something irrevocable changed. Something new. Something God-ordained.”
And so it was for Pam Sawyer of Winter Springs, Florida who, on February 24, 2014, received “the worse kind of news.” Aggressive Stage 3 breast cancer. And, if that were not enough, the following week her husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer.
But Pam (pictured third from the left in Featured Image) is not the kind of woman who rolls over and lets life beat her up. Instead she faced this unexpected bend in the road head-on. “No woe is me,” she said. “We banded together and faced whatever was coming toward us.”
And in that “facing it,” something irrevocable changed. Something new. Something God-ordained. “I am sitting in the Cancer Institute of Florida in Altamonte Springs,” Pam says, “and I ask Nurse Amy what will I do when my hair starts to fall out. Amy smiles and answers, ‘Wear brighter lipstick and bigger earrings.’”
Sure enough, after two sessions of chemo, Pam saw the tell-tale signs of hair loss. But instead of crying about it, she found herself a pair of scissors and cut her own hair to one-inch all over her head. “This isn