Support Helps Patient Find Peace and Comfort in Recovery
 "My future looks pretty great. I'm looking forward to my life now. My treatments are peppered with all these joyful moments that donors provide. I'm really hopeful now. I have so much to look forward to." —Diana Gerbehy, newlywed and recurrent breast cancer patient at Princeton Medical Center |
Diana Gerbehy was about to get married and looking forward to celebrating with family and friends. By 2018 she had already survived breast cancer twice. In the previous two years, chemotherapy, radiation treatments, lumpectomies, and hope had been her focus. After her second diagnosis, she made the decision to have a double mastectomy. By removing all of her breast tissue, she thought it might help prevent the cancer from coming back. But three weeks before her wedding she got the news: It was cancer. Again.
Diana and her Princeton Medical Center care team worked together to create a treatment plan that would allow her to continue with her wedding. Diana was able to postpone treatment just until after her honeymoon.
Throughout her care, Diana has found the help she's needed because of your support. When she's getting her treatments, she can relieve the anxiety she sometimes feels by looking out the windows and watching birds at the feeders in the healing garden. Generous donors like you created this peaceful place.
Diana finds comfort in support groups where she shares her story with others who are going through similar experiences. You help provide these extras that are crucial for patients to heal emotionally as well as physically.
Her favorite days are the dog therapy days. Diana brings treats for the dogs. They help calm her during treatments. Philanthropy provides these bright spots that make a patient's day.
"I know other hospitals don't have what we have. I am so grateful for the people who support Princeton Medical Center," Diana says. "When I am able, I want to give back too. I want to help other patients have the kind of care I receive."
Patients like Diana need your help every day at Princeton Medical Center. When you give to Princeton Medical Center Foundation, your gift supports more than medical care. You help give patients like Diana services they need to heal, hope, and live. For the past 100 years, friends like you have been a light of hope for so many.
To continue that light for the next 100 years, contact Danielle Oviedo at 609.252.8709 or danielle.oviedo@pennmedicine.upenn.edu to learn more about the Legacy Challenge. Ensure that hope shines even brighter for the next 100 years.
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