.NET Black Professional Women Network

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover Story / Thelma Golden : Thelma Golden on Merging Past, Present, and Future at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Plus a video interview with Carol Jenkins - Read more ...

Music / Teyana Taylor : Actor, dancer, and choreographer along with other creative pursuits, Teyana Taylor has had a labyrinthine career as an R&B recording artist. Read more ...

Health / Sandra Lindsay : she's pursued her dream of becoming a nurse to allow her to do what she wanted to do most, give back to her new country," Mr. Biden said on Friday. Read more ...

Events: Like your Networking pages we post our events but you can also add your events to our page as well by posting in our twitter account or joining the Black Professional Women Events page on Facebook. Visit the Events page here ...

The Arts / Bisa Butler : She strategically uses textiles a traditionally marginalized medium to interrogate the historical marginalization of her subjects Read more ...

Special Edition / Lisa Respers France, CNN : All the Black women in us are tired ... Read more ...

Fashion / Fe Noel: I go by the name of Fe Noel which is derived from my birth name Felisha Noel. As a fashion designer, I aspire to make life beautiful, which I’ve set out to do from a very young age. Living as a first generation, American in Brooklyn Newyork I discovered fashion at a very young age. Read more ...

Life Style / Fasting by Simply Kishi : Fasting is a discipline and it is hard work. No one wants to afflict their body or bring it under subjection. Read more ...

Travel: Learn about travel protocols local and internationally. Read more ...

Restaurant / Jilian Hall-Johnson : “We want people to experience our life through our food…” Read more ...

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Rose B. Johnson / Founder of Rose B. Johnson Colon Cancer Awareness Foundation

Rose's Story

This is personal.

ose knows about colon cancer. She is one of the rare survivors. As recommended, Rose did her first colonoscopy at age 50. Rose says, “The doctor found polyps and removed them. He recommended I return in five years. But I didn’t like the drink (a bowel-clearing solution that’s part of colonoscopy prep), so I didn’t return. Ten years later something was protruding from my naval. My polyps had grown back, multiplied, and I had stage IV colon cancer with a prognosis of six months to a year to live. It had metastasized to my liver, lungs and ovaries. I was not a candidate for surgery. I was terminal. Hearing you have cancer is the worst thing in the world. I needed to make a will. I needed to tell my neighbor I didn’t hate her. My daughter had passed away, and I was caring for my grandchildren…what would become of them? Let my heartbreak be your wake-up call.”

But after seven years, many treatments and two recurrences, Rose beat her unimaginable odds. “I was lucky…but I wish that battle on no one. Chemotherapy is terrible. I thought of throwing in the towel many times. But the alternative was death. All because I didn’t want the dreaded drink. I want my story of skipping a colonoscopy to scare you to death.”