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I'm a mom of two young children I'm a
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the doctors feeling a little bit under
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the weather but nothing significant and
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I went from regular mom to small kids to
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be indictment and thanks Sam and my
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world crumbling so connect and that I
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will cliche the world stops too anymore
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yeah it really does it just stops who's
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gonna raise my kids who's gonna feed
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them breakfast in the morning all that
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stuff that you generally won't worry
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about as a mom it was case of what's
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next for years oncologists actually
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cautioned patients away from exercise
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because they were afraid that the
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increase in blood flow would cause
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cancer cells to spread throughout the
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body but luckily we've come a long way
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since then and we now know that exercise
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helps to alleviate nearly every single
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negative side effect of cancer treatment
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so when I first met Tom he assumed that
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I was nervous about stepping out onto a
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gym floor and lifting weights this is
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completely new for me I've never dealt
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with a rehabilitation client before from
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cancer it's really exciting to work with
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roofing and go on this journey together
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and see what we can do
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five I always turn up yeah and I always
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try fine I have some days a lot
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successful than others her left arm is
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very painful turns out that was the N
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word Ruth was fed the chemo through so
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there's an aspect we've got to take into
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consideration but already we're starting
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to see some noticeable differences in a
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strength and in overcoming that the best
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part of it has been being able to look
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back from one week to the next and see
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how far I've come I did 13 press ups
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last week when I started working with
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Tom I couldn't do one I've been
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overwhelmed by the fact what the body
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can achieve she's stronger and faster
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more responsive I could lift more and I
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could run faster and I could run further
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and I could throw my kids up higher and
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I could do more in a day and I could
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begin in the process I can see that my
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body looks different now than it did if
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you look at my face in those pictures
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and you look at my eyes in those
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pictures a few months ago I wasn't
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entirely sure who I was and I've been
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through in quite traumatic experience
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but you'll find actually the last 12
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weeks is enabled me to
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I never expected it to play such a huge
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part in the recovery of my recovery from
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trauma she's done this nobody else has I
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just want her to have that self belief
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that she can do it because she's
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absolutely / - I have an 85 percent
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chance of surviving the next two years
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which is quite scary this is 15 percent
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chance that I won't it has for me in the
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short-term mean life-changing I'm in the
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best physical shape that I could expect
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to be in at this stage of my life and
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I'm ready now mentally for whatever
