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PUBLISHER'S WORD
Survival mode.
“T
he Orangemen are off to an 0-2 start and they’re really in survival mode now,” you might hear a sports broadcaster say before the Syracuse University football team lines up again on Saturday. I know that right on this very page I have written the term ‘survival mode’ to describe the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has created for our publishing business. I’m sure it’s the same in Zoom meetings across America as business executives are forced to deal with the changing dynamics of this economy. And if you google ‘survival mode,’ one of the first references is to the gaming world – a setting that can be applied to certain video games to see how long a player can go without getting his character killed. We’ve overused this term so much that it’s lost its meaning. But some of the women featured in this edition of Syracuse Woman Magazine know exactly what survival mode means. They, like so many others, have had to face down a life-threatening diagnosis using their own inner strength coupled with the support system around them. Reading their stories, you might find that survival mode means leaning on friends and family for support during the most challenging time of their lives. Or transferring their fear for their own life and health into doggedly advocating for the health of others. Or searching high and low for medical professionals that can provide insight into their health challenges. Survival mode isn’t in a video game. It’s in the lives and homes of thousands of Central New Yorkers who face a diagnosis of cancer, or Lyme disease, or COVID-19, or any other life-threatening or life-altering disease. It’s been nearly 10 years that we’ve been publishing Syracuse Woman Magazine, and during that decade we’ve consistently used our October edition to highlight breast cancer awareness and shine a light on some of the inspirational survivors of this terrible disease. My mother is a breast cancer survivor. So is my cousin. And my best friend’s wife. They know what survival mode means, as do tens of thousands of other women. When a disease is so common that one in eight women will be diagnosed at some point in their lifetime, it touches all our lives. Farah Jadran, SWM’s former editor and current news anchor, who is herself a survivor of cancer, also knows what survival mode means. In her column this month, Farah talks about that connection between a survivor’s inner strength and the support network around them powering that strength. “Support comes in many forms,” she writes. “I don't need to explain that, but I do encourage you to search within yourself to find how you can give that person your love and kindness.” It’s a lesson for all of us. All around there are people who are truly in survival mode. Let’s do what we can to ensure they have the support they need to become a survivor.
David Tyler October 2020
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