Cecilia Houston-Torrence

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HOOTERS' HOPE IS BACK!!


Yes, as one of the top fund raising teams of the 2023 Georgia More Than Pink Walk, Hooters' Hope is back to help fight for the lives of those forever changed by breast cancer.  Our small but mighty 2023 team raised $5,600.00, and this year armed with more team members and the same dedicated spirit, we are aiming to raise even more money. 


I formed Hooters Hope because I wanted my family and friends to join me in directly helping those who find their lives upended by a breast cancer diagnosis.  That was me in April of 2022, faced with a life paused and a breast cancer fight in front of me. The weeks and months that followed were both physically and emotionally the hardest and most draining times of my life. I'd have a double mastectomy, six rounds of chemotherapy, and one year of medication infusions.  Greatly weakened by treatment and unable to work, the Susan G. Komen organization stepped in to help me with financial assistance. It is just one of the many ways the work of Komen helps those battling a breast cancer diagnosis. 


Hooters' Hope is also here to help Komen raise money for breast cancer research.  Among other things, my breast cancer was HER2+, one of the more aggressive forms of breast cancer. In the not so distant past, a HER2+ breast cancer diagnosis could be a death sentence, but research and the development of new medications has changed that narrative.  I am a survivor today because these medications exist.


Finally, each time I step out with my team to raise funds to help those who fight breast cancer, I hold in my heart two family members who walked this path before me.  My mother, Ann Robinson, was a warrior and survivor during her lifetime, and my aunt, Vivian Roberts, another warrior, valiantly fought breast cancer for three years.  I don't want anyone to lose someone they love to breast cancer like my family did.  I hold on to hope that a cure will be found, and until then, I will fight in every way that I can to move the journey toward a cure forward. 


 


 




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Leigh Torrence
$262
Gerald Dupre
$260
Leigh III. Logan, Lena, Carole
$260
SURVIVOR!
$250
Anonymous
Mike Harris
$104
Marilyn Arrington
$104
Susan G Komen
$100
Margie Holmes
$100
Brenda Watson
$78
Jewell Grubbs
Lisha Walker
$52
Bette Thomas
$52
Kim Brannan
$50
Phyllis Branch-Jones D.D.S.
$50
William McFarland
$31
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Willard-Jelks Family
$31
Latosha Mathis
$30