"Sunrise to Sunrise" Heralds Triumph of Breast Cancer Survivor

After learning that she is to undergo surgery for a double mastectomy, Fran Padgett determines to evaluate the priorities of her life - her art and creativity. "Sunrise to Sunrise" tells the story of the year following the surgeries and how she dealt with the recovery, reconstruction, and reality.

(PRWEB) January 16, 2004 --Fran Padgett--successful business woman, wife, mother, and friend-just heard the two terrifying words BREAST CANCER." What could she do? For all she had accomplished in the world, she felt empty and that she could have created so much more than she did. How could she deal with it? Fran learned that coping meant relying on what had always been her greatest strength: her creativity. Over the years, she had instead followed the practical pursuits of job and family. Whether she had years or only days ahead of her, she had to rediscover her talent as an artist and make time in her life for painting.

The word 'Surreal kept coming to my mind. Maybe this is a dream and Im going to wake up, drop off the dry cleaning on the way to the office, and sign that stack of contracts piled on my desk."

After she heard the diagnosis, Fran knew she needed to be alone--alone with her thoughts, her fears, her emotions, and her questions. She needed to find an answer to the question: What next?

Next morning, Fran went to Galveston, watched the sun rise from the balcony of her hotel room, and thought about the year of treatment ahead. Would she receive the ultimate pronouncement of becoming a breast cancer survivor? She did not have time to think about that, but how to make the most of the hand she now held. She had once put aside her passions for what we are told is a normal life―getting married, having children, working her way up the corporate ladder. Now alone in a hotel room on the beach, she daubed a clean paint brush into translucent oil paints and painted her emotions. She reclaimed her passion for art.

The series of paintings she made then, aptly titled Sunrise to Sunrise" is also the title of her moving story. Fran shares the experiences of her first Sunrise to Sunrise in a book written about the first year of dealing with the dreaded disease, of recovering from a double mastectomy with cancer in both breasts, the reconstruction process, and the depression that might have crippled her emotionally had she not forced herself to find her talent again. Sunrise to Sunrise ―the story of a breast cancer survivor who thrived―will be published and released in the late spring of 2004.

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