2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

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Colon Girl
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2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

Postby Colon Girl » Tue Jan 05, 2016 12:37 pm

"ANYONE diagnosed with CRC under the typical age of 50 (this doesn't mean you currently have to be under the age of 50) apply to be featured in the 2017 Colondar 2.0 magazine. You must be comfortable with sharing your story and your scar(s).

If you are selected, you will attend a survivor retreat in Tennessee June 8-12, 2016. Applications are due before March 1, 2016 and selected survivors will be notified on March 31, 2016. 

If you have never seen the Colondar or Colondar 2.0, you can go to Colon Club to check it out! 

I guarantee you it is an experience that you will NEVER forget. You will make connections with others just like you and will stay in touch for years. Please share this post with anyone you think should apply!"

2017 Colondar 2.0 Application


Krista Waller
President
The Colon Club


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Re: 2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

Postby seussfan » Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:40 pm

Hey everyone! PLEASE apply for the 2017 Colondar retreat/shoot! Help us get your story out there and help stop this cancer war we are fighting. Post the link on your social media sites as well. We want to make this the best magazine ever and need your stories or the stories of other CRC warriors that you know.

Remember - you don't have to CURRENTLY be under the age of 50 to apply. You just have to have been under the age of 50 when diagnosed. The focus is on those under the typical age.

Thanks! I hope to see that many of you have decided to apply. The deadline is March 1st.
Stage 3 Colon Cancer-6 of 15 lymph nodes positive/Surgery & Dx 3-5-07/Finished Folfox4 11-28-07
Stage 0/Grade 3 Breast Cancer/Double mastectomy 5-15-09/Undergoing reconstruction
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Re: 2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

Postby Phuong » Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:07 pm

I never thought that I would ever do something like this, but I'm so glad that I was pushed outside of my comfort zone and became a part of this absolutely amazing experience. If you're worried about not knowing how to be a model, don't worry. The team of people that put you together and get you in front of camera will walk you through the whole thing and it is just fun and you will not be nervous at all. I wish that I could tell you how much this experience changed my life, but there are really no words to explain it. It is a time of no barriers, no need to apologize for funny bodily noises (from you or your ostomy), and of being surrounded by other survivors that just get it because they've lived it. Apply and tell your story. Make sure you follow the application instructions carefully. Go to "colon camp" - you will not regret it!!!
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Re: 2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

Postby Lydia666 » Fri Mar 04, 2016 1:40 am

seussfan wrote:Hey everyone! PLEASE apply for the 2017 Colondar retreat/shoot! Help us get your story out there and help stop this cancer war we are fighting. Post the link on your social media sites as well. We want to make this the best magazine ever and need your stories or the stories of other CRC warriors that you know.

Remember - you don't have to CURRENTLY be under the age of 50 to apply. You just have to have been under the age of 50 when diagnosed. The focus is on those under the typical age.

Thanks! I hope to see that many of you have decided to apply. The deadline is March 1st.

Hi Trish- how are doing these days after the two cancers? It seems like you beat both which is amazing!
Oct 2012- thyroid cancer
June 19, 2015 Dx@39 yrs- CRC-T3N1M0
No vascular, no perineural invasion
Aug-Sept 2015- 28 rad/5FU
Oct 28, 2015- LAR- temp ileo, neg. nodes- 0/11
March 2016- 6 rounds Xeloda/positive CHEK2 mutation
August 2016- DCIS and decided post prophylactic double mastectomy
May 2018 - clean CT
Sept 2018-clean scope
Devastation, total shock- oct 2018, invasion of peri mets
Dec 20 - 2 round of folfox
Mom to 4 & 7 yrs kids - at least i brought them to this level of independence.

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Re: 2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

Postby MamaN » Fri Mar 04, 2016 6:20 am

Hi I'm interested was dx in 2010 IIIb at 45 , but my scars are minimal I had a great surgeon ! Would consider someone who has small scars ? I am now 51 . Also . Thank you
Dx@45 stage t3 n1b m unknown IIIB
Resected in 8/2010 rectosigmoid
5.5 tumor with 3 /26 lymph nodes
Lymph vascular invasion
Folfox sept 2010 to feb 2011
10 tx only stopped due to low wbc

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Re: 2017 Colondar 2.0 Applications

Postby CRguy » Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:12 pm

I think the application deadline closed on March 1 ….. :( for the 2017 Colondar
You would have to PM Krista, Colon Girl to see if they could still review another application though.

….. BUTT there is still 2018 coming up and they start working early to get a lead on things.

Cheers
CR


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