| I have only been on the internet as a marketer | | | | The internet and Perseverance |
| for 12 months. I have had more downs that ups | | | | I spent days on the internet searching for |
| but am beginning to see the fruits of my labor. | | | | everything I could about DCIS. I learned that the |
| Most internet marketing newbies find one product | | | | basic treatment options were lumpectomy and |
| through happenstance that gets them going online. | | | | radiation and or mastectomy based on the |
| I did and was lucky that the early products were | | | | patient's desire. After the information gathered on |
| good. The second and third products taught me a | | | | the internet, I flew to the US to see a top |
| few things but were not as good as the first. | | | | oncologic surgeon in Atlanta who confirmed what |
| When you find something good you get | | | | I had hoped. Lumpectomy and radiation would be |
| motivated. A bad or difficult course can put you | | | | his treatment. |
| off completely. You need direction and a plan to | | | | Perseverance paid off. Had I gone along with the |
| get you started but you also need something else. | | | | first *3* doctors and not spent a few thousand |
| September 2003 was a year I will never forget. I | | | | dollars/euros searching I would have undergone |
| went for a routine mammogram and got the | | | | that radical surgery without cause. |
| worst news possible. DCIS, breast cancer . . . .or | | | | How does this relate to starting an online |
| pre-breast cancer. I was living in Spain at the time | | | | business? Of course you can't do it without the |
| and it seemed all the doctors (3 different | | | | internet! And one must persevere to really make |
| opinions!) wanted to perform a mastectomy | | | | it happen. The internet is the information highway |
| because the two tiny tumors were considered | | | | (in my case), the foundation, the medium for the |
| "multi-focal". That meant that maybe there were | | | | business. It is the here and now and it is the |
| more that couldn't be seen yet. I was pretty | | | | future. Anyone who can start and build an online |
| shocked . . . bumping into walls was more like it. | | | | business while moving with the tide will be part of |
| But I didn't believe the diagnosis and set about to | | | | the future. But you also must have the |
| make sure before I did anything. 6 years later | | | | perseverance to keep going. It is hard sometimes |
| after a lumpectomy and radiation, I am still me, in | | | | when your family doesn't believe in you or your |
| my entirety. I didn't go along with the first | | | | friends simply can't understand why you don't |
| diagnosis, or the second or even the third . . . | | | | have time to play games on Facebook or chat on |
| There are two reasons why I did not go along | | | | the phone for an hour because you have to get |
| with the doctors and their grim diagnosis (they | | | | back to work. It is a labor of love. Its work but |
| were very reputable doctors who had a belief | | | | its fun and the rewards are amazing. So stick with |
| they were going to save my life): | | | | it and you won't regret it. |