{"id":16015,"date":"2019-06-17T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58416"},"modified":"2019-06-17T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:53:15","slug":"granby-resident-wins-award-for-essay-sharing-her-battle-with-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/granby-resident-wins-award-for-essay-sharing-her-battle-with-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Granby resident wins award for essay sharing her battle with breast cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Granby resident Penny Hamilton, the author of “A to Z: Your Grand County History Alphabet” and several other titles, recently won an award from the Colorado Authors’ League.<\/strong>
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It was a sudden, unexpected blurt from her long-time radiologist that led Penny Hamilton to discover she likely had breast cancer.<\/p>\n

The rapid-fire sentence: \u201cWe probably found breast cancer,\u201d stung her ears that day in October 2017. But it wasn\u2019t unfamiliar as Hamilton first received a breast cancer diagnosis 10 years earlier.<\/p>\n

Today, Hamilton is a two-time breast cancer survivor. And it has led her to share some important perceptions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first insight I gathered after diagnosis was that finding your way in this foreign experience is difficult,\u201d Hamilton wrote on the subject.<\/p>\n

It was her writing of a personal essay, \u201cLessons of a Pink Warrior,\u201d<\/a> that recently won Hamilton an award from the Colorado Authors\u2019 League.<\/p>\n

Published in Conquer, the official patient magazine of the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators, Hamilton used her immense writing talent to communicate two of the most difficult times of her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a long journey. I felt like the mythical Jason and his Greek Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece, having to fight the dragon,\u201d Hamilton wrote of her experience battling breast cancer.<\/p>\n

But she emerged from both battles victorious, with a mission to connect with others struggling through the same, devastating ordeal.<\/p>\n

Hamilton said she used positive imagery \u2014 pasting photos of future events on her room, desk and car \u2014 to help focus her mind on the success of treatment. \u201cImages and words have immense power,\u201d she wrote. It is best for the patient to \u201cturn the power of the mind\u201d to health, healing and wellness, she advocated.<\/p>\n

She shared within her essay the fraught journey of being brought to face one\u2019s own mortality. But quickly, after that first diagnosis in 2007, she was enveloped in a world of pink, embraced by other \u201cpink warriors,\u201d as she described them. She was welcomed to a \u201csisterhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMany were more than 20-year survivors. What a blessing to feel their love and be able to ask them personal questions,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy spirit and my outlook were lifted up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, Hamilton has focused on making a difference in her community, using her time wisely and sharing all the love and support she was given throughout her battles with others.<\/p>\n

Hamilton is well-known throughout Grand County as an avid historian and aviation enthusiast. She, along with her husband, Bill Hamilton, founded the Emily Warner Field Aviation Museum, located at the Granby-Grand County Airport. She\u2019s also a profound author, most recently publishing a children\u2019s book, \u201cA to Z: Your Grand County History Alphabet,\u201d for the Grand County Historical Association.<\/p>\n

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