When Your Friend Is Going Through Chemotherapy…. Pray!
Jackie Kane Sturkie is a wonderful, funny and amazing woman who helped launch and manage Mamazina Magazine when we took it over from Mom Literary Publishers. She also coordinated Mamapalooza events on the West Coast.
There’s a moving story about her and her current battle with cancer in The Oregonian. She’s in my prayers. Won’t you include her in yours? ~ Joy Rose
“Sturkie, 46, a Southeast Portland resident who also has a daughter, Olivia, 8, got a diagnosis of breast cancer in November and soon after began six rounds of chemotherapy, which are nearly done. In April, she’s scheduled to have a double mastectomy.” Read full story.