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Life has many different turns to consider and highways to travel on. One thing we can’t do is reverse time or travel. I, however; don’t believe in being dictated by circumstances either and excepting less or a life without goals and purpose.

During the year 2006 life started out pretty good. I had finally taken a much deserved vacation and went on a cruise. I had several job offers, moved to another city for a new career venture and life was good! I had joined a large international company and started working as a sales professional in a growing area. I made new friends, joined a team of bodybuilders with the goal of fulfilling my lifelong desire of stepping onstage and competing. I had started to interview in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device sales, was offered a career opportunity in Iraq, and was busy getting into competition shape! Life was good!

This was a first launch by Royal Caribbean’s “Freedom of the Seas,” cruise ship which at the time was the largest ship in the world!

I was enjoying swimming, snorkeling, and jet skiing in a beautiful tropical paradise.

Jet skiing in the beautiful Seven Mile Beach area in the Cayman Islands. Just as I was arriving back at the beach a thunderstorm was brewing above. Little did I realize that I would be faced with real life storms within eighteen months. I would be diagnosed with stage one breast cancer by early 2008.

Nothing like finishing the day off with a beautiful sunset to remind one that life can be good regardless of what happens.

Celebrating my birthday at an upscale restaurant with my mother before I moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to begin a new career and start a new life. Little did I know that two years later I’d be celebrating my birthday with many others for a totally different cause!