The Elixir Live: Eileen Z. Fuentes Will Be A Presenter At TEDMED On April 20
Brooklyn Free Clinic Presents TEDMED Live 2013 The Brooklyn Free Clinic Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM (EDT) That’s right folks, our very own Eileen Z. Fuentes will be a presenter at the TEDMED Conference on April 20, 2013, sponsored by the Brooklyn Free Clinic. This is a big deal! Her [...]
The Elixir: For Those of Us With Pre-Existing Conditions…
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) For some of us, having medical insurance means survival. People, particularly the young and healthy, never really think about health insurance until they need it. I implore you to look and listen to these stories and then to take it one step further and vote on November 6th and allow [...]
Survivor Stories: Eileen Z. Fuentes | Good Enough Mother
How did you first find out you had cancer? I was sleeping and had an itch on my breast and when I went to scratch, felt a lump. Even though I had stopped nursing just a couple of months prior, intuitively I felt that something was terribly wrong. Since I work in a hospital, I [...]
My Heart: Eileen Z. Fuentes
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) 4 years ago today my life was turned upside down. On that fateful day, my wife and mother of our 3 young girls, Eileen Z. Fuentes, was diagnosed with breast cancer. To make matters worse, it was an aggressive form of breast cancer that was ominously named triple-negative, which meant it [...]
The Elixir: The Business of Breast Cancer Awareness and Pink Ribbons
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Since my breast cancer diagnosis in 2008, I have intuitively felt uncomfortable with the use of pink ribbons. Well-intentioned friends and family flooded me with gifts displaying them and while I was grateful for their sincere efforts to support me, I never used those products. As time went on, I began [...]
Uptown Health: Free Breast Cancer Screening
On Saturday April 6th and Wednesday April 10th Councilmember Jackson and the American-Italian Cancer Foundation are joining various community groups to bring free mammography screenings to the residents of West Harlem and Washington Heights/Inwood (see attached flyers). The service is limited to women 40 years and older who are residents of New York City and [...]
Jenny Saldaña’s Happy Cancer Chick
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) I love Jenny Saldaña. She has truly been a godsend. My wife and I met her the day after the devastating breast cancer diagnosis that completely changed our lives. Here was someone that made it through, that was from the same community as we were. She made us believe that we [...]
CUMC’s Department of Surgery Blog Profiles Our Very Own Eileen Z. Fuentes & Her Women’s Wellness Series
Women’s Wellness Series by Columbia Surgery Making a difference in the lives of women with breast cancer. It’s one thing to know that we ought to eat a healthy diet and exercise. It’s another to change our lifestyle and put that knowledge into daily practice. And it’s yet another entirely to inspire others to do [...]
The Elixir – It Takes A Village To Heal
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) & Jyoti Kaushal Last year local residents were shocked to hear that North General Hospital located in central Harlem was closing its doors after filing for bankruptcy. This was devastating news to our already medically underserved community but more directly to those patients [...]
Scars of Love: The SCAR Project @ Openhouse Gallery
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) All photos by John Mazlish. It has now has been 3 years since Eileen Z. Fuentes, my young wife and the mother of my 3 daughters was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. On the fateful day, September 19th 2008, my family and I took an unplanned and unpleasant trip to what, Pulitzer [...]
The Elixir Profiles: Jenny Saldaña
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Jenny Saldaña is a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed on January 4th, 2006. She now works with the Latino community as Women At Risk’s Community Program and Outreach Coordinator at New York Presbyterian Hospital. I was introduced to Jenny 3 years ago by my Breast Surgeon, Sheldon Feldman, MD, [...]
Health & Wellness Super Site Care2 Profiles Our very Own Eileen Z. Fuentes
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Not only is Eileen Z. Fuentes the Uptown Collective’s wellness contributor, she is also, more importantly, my wife and the mother of my 3 daughters. I have seen this woman go from a heartbreaking triple-negative breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 34 to the subsequent surgeries and chemotherapy treatment, to [...]
Save The Date – Pink: The Chronicles of BC Jenny on September 15th
Pink: The Chronicles of BC Jenny is a humorous, emotional and very real window into the life of a woman when diagnosed with breast cancer. The playwright, Jenny Saldaña, has toured venues around the country sharing her journey. The show is played out through a series of hysterical dream sequences and moments that reveal the [...]
The Elixir: From illness to wellness
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) For the past 3 months, Linda Abi Assi, a Columbia University Journalism student now graduate, had been following me. She heard out about my (new) life after cancer and decided she wanted to share with others how a negative event can turn into a positive and how that positive could [...]
Columbia University Medical Center Profiles Our Very Own Eileen Z. Fuentes
Like many survivors of cancer, Eileen Fuentes, an HR administrator in the Department of Medicine’s cardiology division, was physically and emotionally drained after multiple surgeries and months of chemotherapy. She needed guidance to rebuild her life, and was referred to a support group for breast cancer survivors. “I went down to the basement, opened the [...]
The Elixir – Wellness Warriors
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) Did you ever feel that the person who is overseeing your health didn’t even look at you in the eyes? Or better yet, did you ever feel empowered knowing that YOU can work towards your full recovery? And if so, do you know how? Would [...]
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