health
Portraits in
Pink
Jan Rogers,
Integrative
Health Care
Coach, nurse
practitioner
at VA Medical
Center
Three profiles of true thriving survivors
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BY R.J. Minnick
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by Dave Minni
Rogers recalls feeling desperate to understand what
God wanted her to learn through her experience. So,
on a cold March morning, she'd finished her round of
chemotherapy and was driving to work, with a tasty McDonald's sausage biscuit in tow. She was on Grove Street
and passed a woman walking barefoot. She heard God
say, Give her your shoes. Rogers felt as if she didn't have
the time to lose. She had a bone scan scheduled for the
afternoon and work to complete before then. Give her
your shoes, God repeated.
And so, Rogers swung around and found the woman
in a parking lot. Her shoes had been stolen the night
before. Rogers offered her the size 6 1/2 sneakers she
had recently purchased. Like the infamous glass slipper
scene from "Cinderella," the shoes fit. Rogers gave her
the breakfast too and drove off to deal with arriving at
work shoeless and harried.
Three years later, cleaning her garage, she unearthed
a well-known poster of footprints in the sand and someone asking God why there was only one set. She heard
His voice as clearly as the day she gave away her shoes.
See? You didn't need those shoes back then, because I
was carrying you.
Hafeena
Martinez,
owner/
manager
University
Dollar Store
(near FSU)
Photography
an Rogers is a bright-haired fireball with a quick smile and energy
streaming from every pore. It is hard
to believe she's had breast cancer. Today, post-reconstructive surgery, her energy is
back and she is once again enjoying activities
she loved, like biking. She credits her husband
as the one who got her through. "He was my
rock….No matter what, he was just strong. He
told me, 'I knew you would never die."
Donna
Sanderson,
LPN
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