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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 [...]
Local Activist Claudia De La Cruz Nominated For Mujeres Que Inspiran Award
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Claudia De La Cruz, Founder and Executive Director of Da Urban Butterflies (DUB) Youth Leadership Development Project has been nominated as a candidate for 2012′s ‘Mujer Que Inspira by Revista Siempre Mujer’ (Women Who Inspire by Siempre Mujer Magazine). It is a well-deserved nomination and even more exciting, if she [...]
Faces of Hope – The Recap
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) It is written all over their faces. Not just the pain but also the perseverance. Not just the tragedy but also the triumph. It is all there for the world to see. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger is a well-worn adage but it also makes for a gripping photography [...]
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 [...]
Elixir Profiles: Carolina “Miss Rizos” Contreras
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Over a decade ago, when I first decided to leave my hair in it’s natural kinky state and free of chemical relaxers, the response from many in my mostly-Dominican community was outright negative. If you didn’t notice, hair and beauty are a big deal in Washington Heights and the fact [...]
The Elixir: Age Is Nuthin’ But A Number – Ernestine Shepherd
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) Recently, I started to notice that my body was craving exercise. Sitting in an office for extended hours a day and being stuck in traffic definitely were taking it’s toll. I consistently eat healthy but have not been exercising like I know I should and it has started to show (both [...]
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 [...]
The Elixir Profiles: Gabby Douglas – When You’re Down To Nothing God’s Up To Something
BY Eileen Z. Fuentes (@theSPEACHgal) So for the last couple of weeks, I have slept all of 2 minutes! Why? Because of the Olympics. I have a short attention span and events like swimming, track and gymnastics are just enough time to get me completely focused and later jumping around my living room like a dork. [...]
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