Episode 28: A Breast Cancer Journey of Resilience
DiepCJourney Podcast
English - February 27, 2023 17:11 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness breastcancer breastreconstruction breastsurgery patientadvocate Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Neosho Ponder, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC is an author, educator, breast cancer survivor, and woman of faith.
She personifies resilience. Neosho is my guest on this episode of the DiepCJourney podcast. We met as patient advocates at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in December of 2022 and found our lives had many parallels.
We talk about these parallels through our Kansas heritage and our own personal Journey through DIEP flap breast reconstruction. Neosho has experienced homelessness and going through breast cancer treatment at the same time. She writes about her life’s experience in her book, GOD’S GOT JOKES: How I Used My Faith and God’s Humor to Survive Breast Cancer. Her faith has sustained her and grounded her throughout her life. Weaving in her healthy sense of humor she tells us it has been her strength and foundation.
She is a first-generation college graduate and proud alumni of Howard University where she earned her Ph.D. Neosho is a volunteer as a Tigerlily Angel Advocate sharing the knowledge she gained through her own breast cancer treatment and surgery. She also volunteers in the Young Survival Coalition DC and For the Breast of Us.
Our conversation wraps up as we share our Kansas connections. I am honored to share the story of her uncle, Jesse Lee Jackson, a former mayor of Chanute, Kansas.
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