{"id":132449,"date":"2024-02-28T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=132449"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:56:56","slug":"breast-cancer-journey-in-middle-east-chronicled-in-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=132449","title":{"rendered":"BREAST CANCER JOURNEY IN MIDDLE EAST CHRONICLED IN BOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-132448\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-640x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-640x274.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-1280x548.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-160x69.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-1024x438.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Front-Page-Book-Signing-Laughlin-2048x877.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BREAST CANCER JOURNEY IN MIDDLE EAST CHRONICLED IN BOOK<\/strong><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Saturday, February 17<sup>th<\/sup>, Barnes and Noble on West Shore Blvd. in Tampa, hosted a book signing for Ronnie Laughlin. Ronnie is the author of\u00a0<em>An Atypical Journey-Facing Breast Cancer Alone in the Middle East with God and My Tribe.<\/em>\u00a0Ronnie tells her story of how she navigated her breast cancer diagnosis during the pandemic while living and working in the Middle East. She drove herself to chemo because of pandemic restrictions. Ronnie persevered and wrote a book that chronicles how she was able to keep moving forward; survive and thrive during this episode in her life. The book signing was well attended by many former colleagues and students, friends and family.\u00a0Her book, as well as the companion book\u00a0<em>My Appointment Notebook<\/em>\u00a0(the cancer patient takes this to appointments to keep track of medical information) is available on Amazon.\u00a0Joining her at the book signing were: Janae Rosario, Dr. Daphne Thomas, Dr. Cheryl Rodriguez, Theo Valentine, Dr. Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Ronnie Laughlin, book author; Clemmie Perry, Colette Glover-Hannah, Mikki Chambers, Achille Laurenceau, and Claudine Ja-Laurenceau. (Photograph by BRUNSON)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAST CANCER JOURNEY IN MIDDLE EAST CHRONICLED IN BOOK\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Saturday, February 17th, Barnes and Noble on West Shore Blvd. in Tampa, hosted a book signing for Ronnie Laughlin. Ronnie is the author of\u00a0An Atypical Journey-Facing Breast Cancer Alone in the Middle East with God and My Tribe.\u00a0Ronnie tells her story of how she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132451,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132449\/revisions\/132451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}