Suzanne Somers on being diagnosed with breast cancer
Suzanne Somers isn’t one to follow convention, especially when it comes to her own health.The actress — best known for her role as Chrissy Snow on Three’s Company —entrepreneur, and author is sharing her breast cancer diagnosis story and why she chose to forgo chemotherapy, along with advice for other survivors.In 2001, Somers, then headlining in Las Vegas, went to get her annual mammogram. All of sudden, she says, “the energy changes in the room.” The technician had spotted a suspicious mass. Somers found out later that she had a 2.4-centimeter tumor in her right breast.“When you hear those three words, ‘You have cancer’ — wow — that’s coming face to face with your mortality,” Somers tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “You never think that you’re not here forever.”But she also managed to find some humor in it. “I thought, how ironic — I was known on ‘Three’s Company’ as the Queen of the Jiggle,” referring to her breasts. “I believe this happened to me because I was a sex symbol — whatever that is,” meaning that she could use her platform to help others.Somers had a lumpectomy to remove the tumor, followed by radiation.But she refused to get chemotherapy despite her doctor’s recommendation, opting foralternative medicine instead.“My cancer has become a veiled gift,” she says, “because when confronted with standard of care — the standard treatment protocol for cancer [being] radiation, chemotherapy, and after-care drugs — I looked at the doctor and I said, ‘I can’t do this.’ And he said, ‘But you’ll die.’ And I said, ‘I honestly believe I will die if I do what you tell me. The idea of flooding my body with chemical poison just doesn’t reckon with who I am.”
About a third of Americans use some form of complementary or alternative medicine(CAM), according to the National Institutes of Health — whether it’s seeing an acupuncturist or naturopath, taking fish oil or probiotics as a preventative measure, or relying on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, or cannabis for managing pain.But those numbers could be even higher if CAMs were consistently covered by insurance, said natural-medicine advocate Suzanne Somers — who is a remarkably ageless-looking 70 — in a Facebook post on Thursday.“Whenever I post about alternative or integrative medicine I get a huge number of responses from many of you who say you simply can’t afford it,” wrote Somers, the actress best known for roles on TV shows “Step by Step” and “Three’s Company,” and who has since become a natural health author (of 27 books!) and entrepreneur. “It pains me that this type of medicine is not available for everyone, and I have promised to use my voice to help create change.”Hundreds of millions of images are shared on social media every day, but chances are only a few actually make you stop scrolling and pay attention. What do they have in common? They’re high-quality, visually appealing, and shareable.Building a library of eye-catching images doesn’t have to be difficult and costly. Here are 14 resources you can use to create beautiful, share-worthy images for social media.
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