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Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee cancer support Nashville family members
Wanda Reddon with Rachel Holt and children

Cancer Support for Three Generations

By Wanda Reddon, member After my cancer diagnosis in August 2015, my daughter Christina found Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee on the Internet, and said “this looks like an interesting place, maybe we should check it out.” As Christina recalls, “Mom was feeling sad and depressed and unsure about her next steps to regains some normalcy…

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Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee cancer support Nashville Big Payback Community Foundation
Join us for The Big Payback - online day of giving on Wed., May 3!

Get Ready for the Big Payback!

Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee is participating in The Big Payback, an online giving day hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle TN. How does it work? For 24-hours beginning at 12:00 a.m. May 3rd, 2017, donors can make gifts to participating nonprofits like Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee. This 24-hour online charitable giving day will help Gilda’s…

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Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee Caitlyn Holland

Taking Care of Caregivers at Gilda’s Club

By Caitlyn Holland, member I wasn’t one of those girls who had been planning her wedding day since she was seven, but I knew what I wanted. At our age, Pete and I had been to enough weddings to know what we liked and didn’t, and of the two of us, I’m the type-A, agenda-toting…

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Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee Hal Trish Potts

Bearing the Unbearable Together

By Hal Potts, member That room. I couldn’t believe I was sitting in that room in Gilda’s Club. I learned about Gilda’s Club six years ago when my best friend Danny developed brain cancer and died six months later.  I had set up a CaringBridge website for him and three years later, to my complete…

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Gilda's Club Middle Tennessee Josh Griffith

Living the Dream

By Josh Griffith, member Why are all these people being released and I am still stuck in this room?  This is not a good sign.  Something must be wrong.  I would later realize this would become a very normal feeling and occurrence.  This being in a constant state of waiting or limbo.  When I mention…

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