Cancer survivor continues to look at life as a gift
Robyne Gold is a 1976 graduate of Ross S. Sterling High School.
“My mother died from breast cancer when she was 53 and I was diagnosed when I was 50. I pretty much thought I knew everything about going through it because I was in high school when she was diagnosed and I was 25 when she died.
“Then my dad died from lung cancer when he was 69. So I watched both of them. I thought I kind of knew what it was all about.
“But when the doctor looks you in the eye and says, ‘You have cancer,’ it changes everything. I ended up having a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation, and I was off work for a year.
“In a weird sort of way, my mom dying when I was young was a blessing for me because before then I was pretty much invincible. I had never really lost anybody close to me and I thought, life just goes on forever. But it was kind of a wake-up call that, hey, you need to cherish every day because it can change in a heartbeat.
“I’ve always looked at life as a gift, and I try to embrace and find something good out of every day. After I had cancer, it was really kind of an exclamation point on how I had already been living my life. It’s just made it even sweeter.”
— Robyne Gold
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