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BARBARA SMITH, A HEALTH ADVOCATE ✦ We are winning against cancer
Meet Barbara Smith, Computer Roving Trainer...
✶ Barbara Smith
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arbara Smith, or Barb as we call her, is a very cheerful, mindful and positive person. An active character, she swims and surfs every morning, and runs two businesses. A Health Wellness and Beauty Consultant with her own online store and a boutique computer agency called The Roving Trainer she is kept busy helping people with the health of their body and training people to get the best out of their technology be it their computers, phones or devices. Additionally, Barb supports a number of business networks like the Micro Business Forum and volunteers at the Olympics Games. Arguably Barb's greatest triumph of all, however, is her recovery from Stage IV cancer and her subsequent standing as an inspiration to many who suffer from the disease.
Here's a recollection of what she went through.
Can you give me a general timeline? I seem to remember that you were diagnosed early in 2004 and then it was July when they told you you didn't need to go through chemo just yet. Yes I was diagnosed in April 2004. And yes, about eight weeks later I was told I had a 50% decrease in the tumours and that chemo would be put aside for the moment.
What was your initial reaction when you were diagnosed? Did you right away consider trying to find an alternative to chemotherapy? When I first found out I was very numb - it was like being in a movie looking in at it as an outsider. I immediately considered finding ways of helping me cope with the
