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Cancer Girl!
Submitted by: Rasha H.
LebanonI am 18 years old. I am a very special person, and I am also a cancer survivor. I wrote a book about my experience. I represented my country in rebuilding lives conference in Vienna as the youngest contestant. I am majoring in journalism, and I am a member in red cross. Up until now I have sold all of my 1000 book copies.
Through my life I have always believed that I’ve got the potential to do so many special things, and though people tried to convince me that it was all just imaginations and fantasies of a teenage girl, I just knew that there is something really big waiting for me, a big challenge and an amazing journey in life.
On 14-12-2005 I was diagnosed with cancer. But even though I was 16 at that time, I just told mom, “Don’t worry, this is God’s gift to me to achieve my dream and deliver my message to the whole world as I have ever dreamed to!”
Everyone was so sad, but I really never felt so. I was so thankful that God chose me among all of my friends to get me to pass through this experience.
I had to skip school classes, I even lost an academic year, and I had 3 bad chemotherapies which never gave a result. The tumor kept on growing and growing and aching my skin. I had to go for bone marrow transplant, and I had to stay in hospital for a whole month in an isolated room. Still I was never upset. After that I had to do radio therapy, but when I was happy that I was done with it the tumor reappeared again, and I had to do it again one more time. Still, I never lost hope, and I was always smiling, believing in the belief that I am going to survive this and be somebody really helpful for my society.
In 22-11-2006 I was informed that I have no piece of that tumor in my body. I was totally healed!!
Then in 22-11-2007, at the age of 18, my first book named “The Cancer Girl” was released in my town, and I was the first girl to talk about such a subject in a very closed society, and I knew it will succeed.
More than 900 people attended my book signing, and my 1000 books copies were sold out. Now I am dreaming to translate my book to all of the languages of the world… applying the Secret.