Honoring Breast Cancer Survivor Mary Lou Gibbs

Honoring Mary Lou Gibbs (Added: November 03, 2011)

Mary Lou Gibb is a breast cancer survivor and still going strong at 98-years-old. (more)

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Mary Lou is a grandmother and a great grandmother.

By: Tina Tyus-Shaw | WSAV News 3
Published: November 03, 2011

(Savannah, GA) This Savannah family brought one belief to Sisters Court Thursday - the more you praise and celebrate life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Those words as they gathered to surprise their matriarch.
98-year-old Mary Lou Gibbs is being honored for her victory over breast cancer. The former school teacher diagnosed 13 years ago told me she never feared what her doctor would say.
"He wanted to know if I wanted to take one little lump or the whole thing. I said you better get it all because it might come back. I don't need it, and I haven't had one bad day since."
Mary Lou and other breast cancer survivors in her family received pink carnations…a symbol of love and hope.
But to them there's no greater inspiration than Mary Lou.
"What she's doing and what she's continuing to do. I know that there's nothing that I can't do," says Barbara Brisbon.
Mary Lou's teaching skills go a long way still today.
She says women should overcome the fear factor.
"Get your mammogram whenever you are asked to get your mammogram.
I would advise that they do so."
Faith is the center of every step in her life.
Mary Lou is a woman with the strength to bypass the elevator and climb the stairs everyday at her apartment building just as she climbed back from breast cancer.
As Mary Lou lives up to her personal belief of making every day special, she's hoping women make early detection a part of their lives.
"I just feel like we need to be you know have a doctor, and beware of what's happening to our bodies and keep up with that."
Mary Lou says she still has her mammogram every year.
At 98-year-old Mary Lou still works.
She's a seamstress.

Honoring Breast Cancer Survivor Mary Lou Gibbs

Honoring Mary Lou Gibbs (Added: November 03, 2011)

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