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VIDEO - HERSTORY: Irene Shares If CTCA Treated Her Like Family

Irene shares if CTCA employees treated her like a member of their family during her stay, treating her breast cancer.

Irene:
Most definitely. They feed me better than my mother, yes. And of course, I’m a fitness buff and if there wasn’t a gym here, that would be incomplete. But I was so happy to find my way up to the gym. And they had more than one treadmill because I’m a treadmill person. So they have a nice variety of equipment there, someone to help you, someone to explain to you how the machines work, not that I need that because I know my way around in a gym, but it was just so nice that people cared about you. And just yesterday, I was in the gym working out, and one person was sitting in the room there. I had been in there for a while, and two people came, walked through, that work in the gym, and one of them looked at me and said, “Would you like some water?” and I said, “Yeah,” and she went and brought me a bottle of water, for no reason at all. That’s the kind of help you get here.

And as I was talking to some of the other patients, even the plants at this place look happy. These plants look artificial, and sometimes you have to just go up and touch them to say to yourself, they are real, they’re really alive. So yes, they have treated me very much like family.

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