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I visited the Gilda's Club in Nashville, Tennessee. Just off music row downtown, they greeted us at the red door, synonymous with Gilda's Clubs everywhere.
Inside, we joined an art workshop on glass painting.
Day and night, people living with cancer come together with family and friends in a variety of groups for emotional and social support.
"I think i'm losing my mind. I'm losing my mind. I don't think i can take it anymore," says Donna Watts.
That was three weeks ago. Watts was crumbling under pressure of breast cancer that had spread to her bones.
One of her nurses recommended she join Gilda's Club.
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Watts says, "Low and behold, we started coming about two weeks ago and I've tried to come to everything, every day, which I'm going to do because I love it. This is my second home."
Sandy Towers founded Gilda's Club-Nashville ten years ago after her best friend died of cancer. She says a Gilda's Club membership can cure the loneliness and isolation that medicine alone can't touch.
"It bring that collective wisdom together and people who have gone through a cancer experience are able to share with each other and its really something magical when that happens."
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