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Breast Cancer Support
Network
A 24-hour one-to-one telephone
support system for breast cancer
patients. Volunteers are available
to answer questions and help
women deal with the emotional
aspects of cancer. This is a free
service. For information, call Lyn
Wasserman at (770) 828-0404.
* M ?leart disease seminars
Heart disease claims more than
twice as many female lives as all
forms of cancer combined. Laney
Hixon, M.S., R.D., will discuss
how to reduce one’s risk of heart
disease by eating a low fat, high
fiber diet with powerful micronu
trients. The seminar will be on
Tuesday, Feb. 2, from 7:30-9 p.m.
at Northside Hospital. For infor
mation, call (404) 845-5555.
Healing the Heart
v..feeding the body. This pro
gram for women struggling with
body image, food and weight
issues. There will be special
information on eating disorders,
bulimia and compulsive over eat
ing. This free program will be
held on Saturday, Feb. 3, from 1-3
p.m. at The Aliveness Center in
Roswell. Susan Tomichek, MS
will led the group. For informa
tion, call (770) 425-7969 or (770)
642-8885.
Northside Hospital/Cumming
Community Education Center
...is now offering childbirth
preparation and infant safety
classes to women in the Cumming
area. These courses will be held
in the Cumming 400 Shopping
Center near Publix. For informa
tion, call (404) 845-5555.
Winter ’99 nurturing program
...will be held on Tuesdays from
through April 13, from 6:30-8:30
p.m. at the Episcopal Church of
the Holy Spirit of Pilgrim Mill
Road. A 12-week positive parent
ing program focusing on new
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skills, fresh ideas and shared con
cerns. For information, call (770)
205-1701.
Women’s Awakening Group
Come be part of a support group
with other women that are explor
ing important issues and are on a
personal healing path every
Wednesday, from 7-8:30 p.m. at
The Aliveness Center. The cost is
sls. For information, call (770)
642-8885.
Nationwide study _
...is seeking women, ages 45 and
65, with severe hot flashes associ
ated with menopause to partici
pate in a nationwide study. This
study is to assess the safety and
effectiveness of an investigational
hormone replacement skin patch
to treat hot flashes. For informa
tion, call (800) 456-6872.
Breast Cancer Support Group
Bosom Buddies of Georgia Inc.
meets the second Monday of each
month at 7 p.m. at North Fulton
Regional Hospital on Roswell
Road in Alpharetta and the fourth
Monday of each month at First
Christian Church in the building
behind the sanctuary. For more
information, call (770) 887-3467.
Osteoporosis Support Group
...meets the last Wednesday of
every month at noon The Emory
Clinic, Building B, in the fifth
floor conference room. For infor
mation, call (404) 778-4335.
Hand in Hand Hospice
...of Northeast Georgia Medical
Center and Health System Inc.
announces its next six-week
series bereavement support
group. The group will meet from
2-3 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning
Feb. 2 at New Day Counseling
located at 475 Tribble Gap Road,
Suite 120 in Cumming. The
group is free, but registration is
required. For information, call
(770) 536-0497.
WOMEN OF FORSYTH
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big Halloween party each year for
pure fun. The event has grown to
about 200 guests.
“The only requirement is you
have to come dressed in a costume
and you don’t get in if you don’t
have one,” she declares.
She also meets weekly with
friends at Marina Beach Club to play
bridge, a sport that has grown to nearly 300 players
throughout Cumming. Her mother taught her how to
play when she was 13 because, simply, every young
lady ought to know how.
Mother was not so excited, however, when Boyd left
Winston Salem, N.C., to attend the University of
Pennsylvania.
“She was so sure I wouldn’t make it, she didn’t even
send my winter clothes,” Boyd says.
She did make it, though, going on to get her nursing
degree, a decision she has never regretted: “It’s the
greatest occupation in the world to prepare you for
being a wife and mother.”
Anatomy and physiology should be required courses
in high school because when people get sick, it gives
you an understanding of what’s happening, she says.
Only young children can make ignorance seem endear
ing, like the time her young son was wringing his arms
at the dinner table.
When Boyd asked him what in the world he was
doing, her son replied, “I want to eat more so I’m pok-
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politics to a degree.
I believe they nave
great insight into
family issues.
Innocently enough, she met her husband, Fred
Daniel Boyd, as a child, when their families vacationed
together in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Now an internist with a
private practice in Roswell, he flew to Philadelphia sev
eral times to visit her in college.
“He was the last person I thought I would ever
many, but you never really know because we suddenly
realized we loved each other,” she recalls. At 21, she
married and has been happily married ever since. The
Boyds now have four children and 11 grandchildren.
That doesn’t take into account the two horses, two cats,
three dogs and two birds that still live at home. She hes
itates to tell her age because “a woman that will tell you
her age ... will tell you anything.”
Between sips of iced tea in her sun room, she
explains why there is definitely room for heels in the
Grand Old Party.
“I’m for women in politics to a degree. I believe
they have great insight into family issues,” she says.
“And I believe we’re better off with less government
and can survive with less tax.”
ing the food down.”
While Boyd thinks learning basic
facts about the body is essential, she
also believes sex education has no
place in the classroom, saying,
“When you are exposed to some
thing, it only makes you inquisitive.
I believe it is to blame for much of
the problems in America today.”