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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark on the Georgia
and Use Network. Turning Point. Breast Cancer Rehabilitation is a
five TOHO one C three nonprofit organization that imposes the
equality of life for individuals impacted by breast cancer by
providing and advocating specialized, evidence based rehabilitation while reducing socioeconomic, racial, cultural,
and geographical barriers to care. They have the Pink Affair
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coming up this year on March twenty second. To talk
about the Pink Affair and other things from Turning Point
is CEO lows Rootsco. Well, first off, you just had
your first anniversary. I did, yes, And what does it mean?
I what have you seen happen? What have you seen
happen at Turning Point?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So many things going on over the last year, different grants,
We've applied for new events, our twentieth anniversary. So it
was a jam packed, busy, but it was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And you've had some new new members of the board
come on too.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Right, Yes, we have a new executive committee that's just
recently been named and we have a new board chair,
Kathy Smith. She's also our former Pink Affair chair. She
actually founded our Pink Affair gala twenty four years ago
in the living room of her home. So we're thrilled
to have her on the board and as our chair.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
How did the I know you went around twenty four
years ago and it happened, But how are you? How
did that happen? Did she been a patient afore? At
turning point and in a somebody?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
No, she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She and her friends got together and decided they wanted
to raise some money for breast cancer and they did
that and then they just reached out to a few
charities in the area to see who would like the money,
and we were one of the few that responded.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh okay, so now it's all yours.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It is it has been ever since.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So and we'll go to that first note that's coming
up soon. Yes, talk about it. This year. You're going
to have a new place at at the aquarium.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Right, Yes, we're very excited about it. New location, Georgia
Aquarium Ballroom. It's going to be on Saturday, March twenty second,
six to ten pm. And we have a new MC
this year. It's going to be Wendy Corona from a
news anchor from WSBTV Channel too.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Good. That ballroom in that in the aquarium. You look,
it's really cool. You see the aquarium really something. Yeah,
it's really neat. It's really neat. So you're what all
are You're going to have a sidle auction things like.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That, We're going to have silent auction. We're going to
have a live auction as well. And we're also going
to do what we call our fund to Need during
the auction time, where we raise funds for certain programs
within Turning Point to help our patients who can't afford those.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh okay, so so like, for example, what do do
you have that you can We'll.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Have different levels that people can bid on from fifty
dollars all the way to five thousand, and each level
will talk about what it does for our patients or
what it can provide for our patients. So, for example,
one thousand dollars level can provide one hundred services for patients.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, so you'll tell everybody this is what this can do.
It'll be specifically for that yes, service, and then you
go from that. Okay, so that's great. Then you'll give
it to.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Let the person use it right exactly for.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Anything else going on? How do you get tickets for it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We have tickets available through our website which is my
Turningpoint dot org. We also have an event website which
is Pink twenty twenty five dot give smart dot com.
They're available there. We have discounted tables on sale right now.
They're normally twenty five hundred. They're twenty two hundred now
until February sixteenth, OK, and then individual tickets are two
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hundred and fifty dollars each.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And your goal is to raise two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And I think you're going to pass that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I hope you. I hope so too. I hope so too.
Have you made it? You made gold all these years?
I'm sure absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And we have goals for sponsorships as well as auction items,
so all that helps us to attain the two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars profit right.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And it's a you get a dinner and everything too.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes, we have a seated dinner. There will be a
bar available.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We also have the Rupert's Orchestra, which has been a
very popular band for us the last couple of years.
They'll be there again this year, so we'll have dancing
after the auction.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I wondered that one year. It was so much fun.
It was a lot of fun. They had orchestra there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, they're a great they're a great group.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Okay, So so everybody gets your tickets to a pink affair,
do that doing it? Well, let's talk more about what
you do at Turning Point for women with breast cancer
and men with breast cancer too, right, talk about that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You have anybody with breast cancers, anybody we've treated men
over the years. Right now, we don't have any that
we're treating, but it is, it does happen with them.
It's so one in one one hundred occurrence versus one
and eight for women. So of course we've treat more women.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Now the doctor, for example, has to refer you to
Turning Point or how does that work?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yes, typically there's a referral involved.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
For physical therapy that's going to help them get their
flexibility and mobility back. We also provide counseling, nutrition, exercise services.
None of those require referrals. You can just come in
and use those services. But for insurance to potentially cover
your physical therapy, we do ask for a doctor's referral.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You know, I have a friend who had breast cancer
and user services a long time ago, and I really
realized that, you know, you think you have breast cancer,
you're okay, I mean, you know, okay, you get it
on and you go it's so much to it. Yes,
it's so much to stretching.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And exactly different.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And to your point, I think people don't think about
that after you've had this major surgery, it can be
difficult to pick up your child or or even grab
a plate or help a coffee or plate, tennis or
any of that. And so our services are physical therapy
will get back that flexibility, the mobility, and all of
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our research shows that long term outcomes are improved overall
by combining all of the rehabilitation services.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right, because then you know, you reconstructed for surgery or yes,
don't reconstruct it no matter what. It's all. That's a
lot you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It is it really is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I think a lot of people think, well, I've
had the surgery, I'm fine, and that really isn't the
case for those who are going through it. There's a
lot of emotional things that happen to you. Your famili's involved.
Caregivers are involved, so a lot of moving pieces there.
Then we try to address all of them.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
What are some of your main things that you just
mentioned some that's stretching into ligaments in church, What are
some of the other things you deal with? Your physical
therapists are there and what do they deal with?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The mobility and flexibility is primary, and then we also
have massage therapy because that can help with the edema.
It just can help with overall relaxing the muscles and
giving you some benefit of just relaxation overall. And then
we also refer for nutrition where we get nutritional support
specific to cancer survivors. So the types of foods that
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they are learning to make and the types of grains
and things like that. They're all very specific to being
healthy and surviving through your cancer.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And now you just twenty twenty four, right was your
was you five hundred patients a month? Now as you
see is that every one you see them.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We hit that record in May, which we were really
excited about.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
On average we see about four hundred and sixty a month.
Pretty good though, so it's climbing definitely.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean it's not good, but yeah, it is It
is bad that people have to I mean you would
this is terrible. You would rather be out of business.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yes, people not having that sure right exactly, but they
have to have it and you're there. Yes, you're there
for them, the people that had the breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now is it? I know you're in where you located.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We have a large clinic in Sandy Springs. That's where
our primary clinic is. And then we have a second
clinical caation that opened just over a year ago, and
that's in downtown Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, because sometimes we're talking about people that are out
in the other areas that can get to you. That's
what we were talking about last year.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We have our Georgia Outreach program okay, and we utilize
that program. We use telehealth so we can treat patients virtually,
and we also provide transportation and or financial aid so
that they can get to our office. Oftentimes getting to
us from so far away can be a barrier to care,
so we do provide lift transportation or they can do
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their appointment online.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Do people come out from ab outside the Atlanta area?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They do. Yeah. Over the last.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well since twenty twenty two, when our Georgia outreach initiatives started.
At that point, we were probably in four to six
counties outside of the metro area. Since we put that
initiative in place, where now in twenty two counties really
outside of the metro area. So we're very pleased with
our reach and we want to continue that, but we've
really focused some efforts outside.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
There was some grant funds.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Because I know that you know, being what it is
and it's very expensive for some people, it's very expensive,
and that it can the cost of involving what they
go through to go to turning point. Yes, it is
expensive too, and that just helps them even more when
you can reach out and help them financially at all.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Two. Yes, definitely, and we really appreciate all the donations
and our events that support these types of financial assistance programs.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Without them, there's.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Many many men and women that would not be able
to use our services.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You do take make insurance in every any type of insurance, right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We take all major medical insurance. We also take Medicare.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The only drawback is while we do take it, it
covers about thirty percent of the cost of this service,
so we do get reimbursement, but then there's that gap.
So that's another piece of the puzzle for asking for
money to help the charity.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And you have to be referred by a doctor to
get that too.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
For the physical therapy. Yeah, for the insurance piece.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yes, Now, do you have doctors outside at Atlanta area.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We do, they'll refer from outside the area in these
different rural areas.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And we've also treated.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Patients in Savannah, and we are licensed also in North
and South Carolina and Tennessee to do virtual services.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, So okay, so you have any patients, any other
any physicians anywhere else else in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That can anybody around the state of Georgia can It
doesn't have to just be this local area.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, all right, all right, yes and so and so
you do this and you treat any any plans I know,
we't to talk about plans now, any plans to expand
even more, but open to other locations or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, we would like to continue our growth in Atlanta.
We're currently open and Sandy Springs five days a week
Funday through Friday. In downtown Atlanta we're open three so
we have the capacity to go to five days a week,
and we're really looking at programs to expand that this
coming year in twenty twenty five, and also looking to
expand our telehealth program potentially out into the rural areas
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of Georgia.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Do you think it's increasing more, They're getting more and
more people. They just have more and more people aware
of you.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I think there's both. I think it's a little of each.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
There's more and more people aware of us, but more
people are being diagnosed with breast cancer, and some of
it's a little earlier than we've seen in the past.
They've changed the mammogram readings to forty and below, and
then they're also saying and we want you to have
them five years prior if someone else had it in
your family, say at forty years old, we want you
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to have a mammogram at thirty five. So that is
skewy a little bit younger. So we're catching some earlier
ones as well. I also think that there's more people
getting screened, and that's why we're seeing more of it
as well.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
The numbers being lowered. Now they lower the numbers, are.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They high for the numbers are still going up for
breast cancer?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It's not as fast as it was, but they're definitely
going on.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But with them being able to find it sooner they're
able to treat it, then.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The outcomes are much better, hopefully getting better hopefully.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, it's really tough to deal with it. Really, it's
a long processes it really is. It really is. I
mean some people are just they go and men and
women and they just have the biopsy and they have
the small ports taken out. Then some have the full
surgery and this is really tough.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Both of them are Both of them can be tough.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But yeah, the lumpectomy can impact your lymph nodes as
well and can impact your movement. The mestectomy is much
more invasive.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Of course, what.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Are your physical therapists? Are they trained? I mean they're
trained in this, but are they just this is what
they do specifically.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, they're specifically trained in breast cancer oncology rehabilitation, so
they're doctors of physical therapy, and we also physical therapy assistance.
But our doctors are the one who put the care
plans together with the patients, and then the physical therapy
assistants can also help with the treatment along the way.
But they're usually supervised by the doctors of physical therapy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then do you recommend online groups or group studies
or groups. We do.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
When they're putting their care plan together, they're going to
evaluate what they think their needs are. All of our
clinicians have been trained in trauma informed care, so we
know what science to look for for other areas of counseling,
for example, exercise group support, those types of things, and
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so when they meet to develop their care plan, they
identify those areas as well and then put that together.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
For I know this, it's such a psychological race, psychologically
or something. Do you have psychologists and psycha We.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Have licensed clinical social worker, you're in a licensed medical
social work and they are counselors and we have them
one that helps out at the Atlantic Clinic and one
for the Sandy Springs and they both do groups for us.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So all this takes a lot of money. It does
takes a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yes, you have.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
To raise funds. You've you raising fronts all year, not
just with pink an you raise it all year and
the other ways by side you just you can go
to the website, I'm sure and just give them money,
right right.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, we of course you could do the website, but
we also have events that we love people to just
participate in, get to know us a little better, spread
the awareness, and we have events throughout the year. So
we kick it off with the Pink Affair in March,
and then we have a golf event in June, a
pickleball event in September, and then another golf event in December.
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When we tied it in with Toys for Tops.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I thought, I thought you might mention pickle. So many
people mentioned that to me these days. Yes, if you
ever pickle, I never have. So they mentioned that's popular, huge,
I'm glad you had that event.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, we were excited about it and we had a
very good turnout for our first year, so I think
this year is going to be even better.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
People were talking about it afterwards.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh man, that's that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But now the Peak Affair, let's go over that again.
Let's just tell them all about that because I want
them to go, go go, because I don't you raise
it a two hudred fifty thousand dollars. So the Peak
Affair is March.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
March twenty second, Saturday, Saturday at the Georgia Aquarium Ballroom
and we'll be kicking it off. The doors will open
at five thirty registration and all of that, and then
we'll have a seated dinner starting around seven, and then
we'll have our live and silent auctions going on.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And we'll end the auction.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Period at around eight thirty, quarter to nine, and then
we'll start the dancing. Okay, but again there'll be a
seated dinner, there will be an open bar, silent, live auctions.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
A wonderful the Rupert's Orchestra.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Band that's going to be there, and a lot of dancing,
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And you can still go on and register for the tickets,
but also register to be a sponsor too.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Right exactly, and you can also register for the silent auction.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We're going to open that up a couple of weeks
before the event, so people can start bidding on items
and enjoy that. If they can't be at the event,
they can still bid on items.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And no matter where you are in Georgia, you can
come to this. Come on, come up to Atlanta, have
Weeken Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Please do and you could you never know where you
could be on our live feed. We're going to have
a live feed with Facebook as well.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Oh okay, so that should be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So you can you can go on live and see
it happen, yes, exactly, and then you see what you
missed everything.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, and you'll be there next year.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Give some money and you come back and there you are.
Oh man, what what are some of the things that
you need now that that are that you that you
have a need for in doing what you do? What
are some of the things you need right now?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Our needs are really operating expenses and things to help
us within the clinic. We go through a lot of
laundry in our rooms with each patient we have to
change those out, so things like office supplies and clinical
supplies is very helpful and just money to support our
doctors of physical therapy and our physical therapy.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Assistants that are treating the patients.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That it does take us a lot and we need
a lot of people there to help the patients, So
we do need the funding for that's very important for.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Us right now.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Do you use volunteers there?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We do.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We have a really nice volunteer group and we are
always looking for more to get involved. But we have
some really wonderful groups that we've partnered with the national charity.
Leave of Dunwoodie has been wonderful with us and many
other individuals and patients. We have a lot of patients
volunteer as well.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I was going to say that a patient would be
monumental yees volunteering, that'd be a great volunteer.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They're great advocates for us and provide great testimonials for
our services. And of course our board is always involved
as well. They're great at supporting our events.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
To who makes up your board to tell me that
it's all.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Business, individuals, medical professionals and former patients.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So it's a really great mix men and women and
varied background. So it's I think it's a really great
mix this year, and I think we're going to do
great things together, great.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Great well, certainly kicking it off with the pink affair,
that's going to be that'll be good. So what are
some of the other programs you offer at Turning Point.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Well, we briefly mentioned counseling, so we do have a
lot of support groups that we have. We have young survivors,
we have caregivers and supporters and partner workshops, things to
really help not only the patient but the families, So
we do.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Have those programs available.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Those are funded by a grant and also some donations,
so those types of programs will continue on with more
donations as well. We have an amazing exercise program. We
have a partnership with Maple Tree Cancer Alliance and they
specialize in onlogy. Exercise programs are specifically is for breast
cancer survivors and this program has just really exploded over
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the last.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Couple of years.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The exercise therapists they have there are just amazing and
our patients love them and there are one on one
sessions available and there's also group sessions available in that.
So those are some other exciting programs that we're moving forward.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Were what they use those sessions for to They're.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
All different things.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
So a lot of them are flexibility and movement to
continue on with the physical therapy that you have, but
it's also strength. A lot of times your balance is
impacted and people don't think about that your lymph notes
can be impacted, so exercise can help reduce the swelling.
And we're entering into a new exercise program where we're
working with another gentleman who is collecting our data to
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show that weightlifting does reduce swelling and helps those with lymphidema.
So it's another avenue that we're exploring this year.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And you mentioned we mentioned men having breast cancer and
that you don't having now, but you have had them. Yes,
what is it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It has to be a difficult for them, But what
all do they go They go through it differently than
women something like that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Not really, they're really going through the same types of
things they're going to go through. It could have been
identified through a mammogram some other method there.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
There may have been a lump, but.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The procedures from a surgery standpoint are going to be similar,
and then the recovery would be similar as well. And
as far as movement, the same types of areas are
going to be impacted. They can also have lymph node involvements,
so many of the things are similar. I think from
an emotional and psychological standpoint, it's very different and it
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has to be approached differently with them.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, I guess you, Yeah, I guess it would be
psychologically it would just impact to so differently. Yes, to have.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That, it's just something that men are like, I have
breast cancer. I would have never thought of that and
it's something I'm not sure they want to communicate broadly.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I wondered about that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that's a barrier as well.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And I think that's some men probably go a little
longer than they should getting diagnosed because it's like what
is this? And yeah, a little embarrassing, but there could
be those types of barriers to care for them.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, it's just that it's so foreign to men men. Yes,
I'm sure the psychological damage has to be You have
to deal with that too, don't you. Yeah, absolutely, And
do you have to deal with that with them if
they if they come in and one comes in today,
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you're gonna have to deal with him somehow. You get
a psychologist in there something exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, that again, that would be a one on one
with their physical therapist putting together that care plan. But
that would probably be an area of identification for them
to focus on and work with the counselor on.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah. I just always think about that because I know
how terrible it is for women. Yeah, men's a different story.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That's totally different minds totally.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One thing I'd like to mention about our counselors is
they are breast cancer survivors one of them is a
former patient of ours, so they have a very good
understanding and are really great with our survivors and the groups.
We've gotten a lot of compliments on them because they
are survivors and have been through it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's great. That's great. And you mentioned one more time
that you do have outside of the Atlanta area. You
do have places that people can go to to find
to get the help they need for this.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Actually we don't have brick and mortar, but you can
do online virtual appointments for them, absolutely, and they can
just call our office and we can schedule it there.
And all of our physical therapists are trained to do
this online, so it would allow probably a little easier
scheduling since it's not just limited to one or two people, right.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Right, Well, you probably did that. You know, it's better
than nothing having somebody out out in the hinterlands of Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And if we can, we'd love to bring that patient
in and have a personal, one on one evaluation and
then you know, maybe go back to doing virtual care,
so there's not such an issue with trying to get
to our clinics.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Let's tell them one more time about we're going to
tell them about a Pink Affair one more time. It's
the twenty second of March.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's a Saturday, Saturday, March twenty second, six to ten
at the Georgium Georgia Aquarium Ballroom, and we'd love to
have everybody there.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And the goal is to raise two hundred and fifty thousand, yes,
which you're going to do. I know, I feel like
you will. And it sounds like it's gonna be a
great time to go get tickets. Where should you go, yes.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
My turning Point dot org or Pink twenty twenty five
dot give smart dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And where should it go to get just general information
on turning.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Point My Turningpoint dot org or they can give us
a call and our phone number is on that website
as well.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
All right, thank you so much for coming today. Thank
it's good to see you guys again. Thank you as well,
and good luck this year on a peak affair.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That's Lois Rusco, CEO of Turning Point. You can find
out more about them and about the Pink Affair at
Myturningpoint dot org. You can find out more about Georgia
Focus and Me at John Clark at Georgiannewsnetwork dot com.
Thanks for listening. I'll talk to you next week right
here in your local radio station on Georgia Focus
Welcome to Georgia Focus. I'm John Clark on the Georgia
and Use Network. Turning Point. Breast Cancer Rehabilitation is a
five TOHO one C three nonprofit organization that imposes the
equality of life for individuals impacted by breast cancer by
providing and advocating specialized, evidence based rehabilitation while reducing socioeconomic, racial, cultural,
and geographical barriers to care. They have the Pink Affair
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coming up this year on March twenty second. To talk
about the Pink Affair and other things from Turning Point
is CEO lows Rootsco. Well, first off, you just had
your first anniversary. I did, yes, And what does it mean?
I what have you seen happen? What have you seen
happen at Turning Point?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So many things going on over the last year, different grants,
We've applied for new events, our twentieth anniversary. So it
was a jam packed, busy, but it was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And you've had some new new members of the board
come on too.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Right, Yes, we have a new executive committee that's just
recently been named and we have a new board chair,
Kathy Smith. She's also our former Pink Affair chair. She
actually founded our Pink Affair gala twenty four years ago
in the living room of her home. So we're thrilled
to have her on the board and as our chair.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
How did the I know you went around twenty four
years ago and it happened, But how are you? How
did that happen? Did she been a patient afore? At
turning point and in a somebody?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
No, she wasn't.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She and her friends got together and decided they wanted
to raise some money for breast cancer and they did
that and then they just reached out to a few
charities in the area to see who would like the money,
and we were one of the few that responded.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh okay, so now it's all yours.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It is it has been ever since.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So and we'll go to that first note that's coming
up soon. Yes, talk about it. This year. You're going
to have a new place at at the aquarium.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Right, Yes, we're very excited about it. New location, Georgia
Aquarium Ballroom. It's going to be on Saturday, March twenty second,
six to ten pm. And we have a new MC
this year. It's going to be Wendy Corona from a
news anchor from WSBTV Channel too.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Good. That ballroom in that in the aquarium. You look,
it's really cool. You see the aquarium really something. Yeah,
it's really neat. It's really neat. So you're what all
are You're going to have a sidle auction things like.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
That, We're going to have silent auction. We're going to
have a live auction as well. And we're also going
to do what we call our fund to Need during
the auction time, where we raise funds for certain programs
within Turning Point to help our patients who can't afford those.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Oh okay, so so like, for example, what do do
you have that you can We'll.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Have different levels that people can bid on from fifty
dollars all the way to five thousand, and each level
will talk about what it does for our patients or
what it can provide for our patients. So, for example,
one thousand dollars level can provide one hundred services for patients.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, so you'll tell everybody this is what this can do.
It'll be specifically for that yes, service, and then you
go from that. Okay, so that's great. Then you'll give
it to.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Let the person use it right exactly for.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Anything else going on? How do you get tickets for it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We have tickets available through our website which is my
Turningpoint dot org. We also have an event website which
is Pink twenty twenty five dot give smart dot com.
They're available there. We have discounted tables on sale right now.
They're normally twenty five hundred. They're twenty two hundred now
until February sixteenth, OK, and then individual tickets are two
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hundred and fifty dollars each.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And your goal is to raise two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And I think you're going to pass that.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I hope you. I hope so too. I hope so too.
Have you made it? You made gold all these years?
I'm sure absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And we have goals for sponsorships as well as auction items,
so all that helps us to attain the two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars profit right.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And it's a you get a dinner and everything too.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes, we have a seated dinner. There will be a
bar available.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We also have the Rupert's Orchestra, which has been a
very popular band for us the last couple of years.
They'll be there again this year, so we'll have dancing
after the auction.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I wondered that one year. It was so much fun.
It was a lot of fun. They had orchestra there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, they're a great they're a great group.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Okay, So so everybody gets your tickets to a pink affair,
do that doing it? Well, let's talk more about what
you do at Turning Point for women with breast cancer
and men with breast cancer too, right, talk about that.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
You have anybody with breast cancers, anybody we've treated men
over the years. Right now, we don't have any that
we're treating, but it is, it does happen with them.
It's so one in one one hundred occurrence versus one
and eight for women. So of course we've treat more women.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Now the doctor, for example, has to refer you to
Turning Point or how does that work?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yes, typically there's a referral involved.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
For physical therapy that's going to help them get their
flexibility and mobility back. We also provide counseling, nutrition, exercise services.
None of those require referrals. You can just come in
and use those services. But for insurance to potentially cover
your physical therapy, we do ask for a doctor's referral.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You know, I have a friend who had breast cancer
and user services a long time ago, and I really
realized that, you know, you think you have breast cancer,
you're okay, I mean, you know, okay, you get it
on and you go it's so much to it. Yes,
it's so much to stretching.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
And exactly different.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And to your point, I think people don't think about
that after you've had this major surgery, it can be
difficult to pick up your child or or even grab
a plate or help a coffee or plate, tennis or
any of that. And so our services are physical therapy
will get back that flexibility, the mobility, and all of
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our research shows that long term outcomes are improved overall
by combining all of the rehabilitation services.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Right, because then you know, you reconstructed for surgery or yes,
don't reconstruct it no matter what. It's all. That's a
lot you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It is it really is.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I think a lot of people think, well, I've
had the surgery, I'm fine, and that really isn't the
case for those who are going through it. There's a
lot of emotional things that happen to you. Your famili's involved.
Caregivers are involved, so a lot of moving pieces there.
Then we try to address all of them.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
What are some of your main things that you just
mentioned some that's stretching into ligaments in church, What are
some of the other things you deal with? Your physical
therapists are there and what do they deal with?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The mobility and flexibility is primary, and then we also
have massage therapy because that can help with the edema.
It just can help with overall relaxing the muscles and
giving you some benefit of just relaxation overall. And then
we also refer for nutrition where we get nutritional support
specific to cancer survivors. So the types of foods that
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they are learning to make and the types of grains
and things like that. They're all very specific to being
healthy and surviving through your cancer.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And now you just twenty twenty four, right was your
was you five hundred patients a month? Now as you
see is that every one you see them.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
We hit that record in May, which we were really
excited about.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
On average we see about four hundred and sixty a month.
Pretty good though, so it's climbing definitely.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean it's not good, but yeah, it is It
is bad that people have to I mean you would
this is terrible. You would rather be out of business.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yes, people not having that sure right exactly, but they
have to have it and you're there. Yes, you're there
for them, the people that had the breast cancer.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Now is it? I know you're in where you located.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
We have a large clinic in Sandy Springs. That's where
our primary clinic is. And then we have a second
clinical caation that opened just over a year ago, and
that's in downtown Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Okay, because sometimes we're talking about people that are out
in the other areas that can get to you. That's
what we were talking about last year.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We have our Georgia Outreach program okay, and we utilize
that program. We use telehealth so we can treat patients virtually,
and we also provide transportation and or financial aid so
that they can get to our office. Oftentimes getting to
us from so far away can be a barrier to care,
so we do provide lift transportation or they can do
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their appointment online.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Do people come out from ab outside the Atlanta area?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They do. Yeah. Over the last.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Well since twenty twenty two, when our Georgia outreach initiatives started.
At that point, we were probably in four to six
counties outside of the metro area. Since we put that
initiative in place, where now in twenty two counties really
outside of the metro area. So we're very pleased with
our reach and we want to continue that, but we've
really focused some efforts outside.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
There was some grant funds.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Because I know that you know, being what it is
and it's very expensive for some people, it's very expensive,
and that it can the cost of involving what they
go through to go to turning point. Yes, it is
expensive too, and that just helps them even more when
you can reach out and help them financially at all.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Two. Yes, definitely, and we really appreciate all the donations
and our events that support these types of financial assistance programs.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Without them, there's.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Many many men and women that would not be able
to use our services.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You do take make insurance in every any type of insurance, right, Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
We take all major medical insurance. We also take Medicare.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The only drawback is while we do take it, it
covers about thirty percent of the cost of this service,
so we do get reimbursement, but then there's that gap.
So that's another piece of the puzzle for asking for
money to help the charity.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And you have to be referred by a doctor to
get that too.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
For the physical therapy. Yeah, for the insurance piece.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yes, Now, do you have doctors outside at Atlanta area.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
We do, they'll refer from outside the area in these
different rural areas.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
And we've also treated.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Patients in Savannah, and we are licensed also in North
and South Carolina and Tennessee to do virtual services.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, So okay, so you have any patients, any other
any physicians anywhere else else in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That can anybody around the state of Georgia can It
doesn't have to just be this local area.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, all right, all right, yes and so and so
you do this and you treat any any plans I know,
we't to talk about plans now, any plans to expand
even more, but open to other locations or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, we would like to continue our growth in Atlanta.
We're currently open and Sandy Springs five days a week
Funday through Friday. In downtown Atlanta we're open three so
we have the capacity to go to five days a week,
and we're really looking at programs to expand that this
coming year in twenty twenty five, and also looking to
expand our telehealth program potentially out into the rural areas
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of Georgia.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Do you think it's increasing more, They're getting more and
more people. They just have more and more people aware
of you.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I think there's both. I think it's a little of each.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
There's more and more people aware of us, but more
people are being diagnosed with breast cancer, and some of
it's a little earlier than we've seen in the past.
They've changed the mammogram readings to forty and below, and
then they're also saying and we want you to have
them five years prior if someone else had it in
your family, say at forty years old, we want you
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to have a mammogram at thirty five. So that is
skewy a little bit younger. So we're catching some earlier
ones as well. I also think that there's more people
getting screened, and that's why we're seeing more of it
as well.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
The numbers being lowered. Now they lower the numbers, are.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
They high for the numbers are still going up for
breast cancer?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
It's not as fast as it was, but they're definitely
going on.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
But with them being able to find it sooner they're
able to treat it, then.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The outcomes are much better, hopefully getting better hopefully.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, it's really tough to deal with it. Really, it's
a long processes it really is. It really is. I
mean some people are just they go and men and
women and they just have the biopsy and they have
the small ports taken out. Then some have the full
surgery and this is really tough.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Both of them are Both of them can be tough.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But yeah, the lumpectomy can impact your lymph nodes as
well and can impact your movement. The mestectomy is much
more invasive.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Of course, what.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Are your physical therapists? Are they trained? I mean they're
trained in this, but are they just this is what
they do specifically.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, they're specifically trained in breast cancer oncology rehabilitation, so
they're doctors of physical therapy, and we also physical therapy assistance.
But our doctors are the one who put the care
plans together with the patients, and then the physical therapy
assistants can also help with the treatment along the way.
But they're usually supervised by the doctors of physical therapy.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then do you recommend online groups or group studies
or groups. We do.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
When they're putting their care plan together, they're going to
evaluate what they think their needs are. All of our
clinicians have been trained in trauma informed care, so we
know what science to look for for other areas of counseling,
for example, exercise group support, those types of things, and
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so when they meet to develop their care plan, they
identify those areas as well and then put that together.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
For I know this, it's such a psychological race, psychologically
or something. Do you have psychologists and psycha We.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Have licensed clinical social worker, you're in a licensed medical
social work and they are counselors and we have them
one that helps out at the Atlantic Clinic and one
for the Sandy Springs and they both do groups for us.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So all this takes a lot of money. It does
takes a lot.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yes, you have.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
To raise funds. You've you raising fronts all year, not
just with pink an you raise it all year and
the other ways by side you just you can go
to the website, I'm sure and just give them money,
right right.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, we of course you could do the website, but
we also have events that we love people to just
participate in, get to know us a little better, spread
the awareness, and we have events throughout the year. So
we kick it off with the Pink Affair in March,
and then we have a golf event in June, a
pickleball event in September, and then another golf event in December.
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When we tied it in with Toys for Tops.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I thought, I thought you might mention pickle. So many
people mentioned that to me these days. Yes, if you
ever pickle, I never have. So they mentioned that's popular, huge,
I'm glad you had that event.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, we were excited about it and we had a
very good turnout for our first year, so I think
this year is going to be even better.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
People were talking about it afterwards.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh man, that's that's that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But now the Peak Affair, let's go over that again.
Let's just tell them all about that because I want
them to go, go go, because I don't you raise
it a two hudred fifty thousand dollars. So the Peak
Affair is March.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
March twenty second, Saturday, Saturday at the Georgia Aquarium Ballroom
and we'll be kicking it off. The doors will open
at five thirty registration and all of that, and then
we'll have a seated dinner starting around seven, and then
we'll have our live and silent auctions going on.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And we'll end the auction.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Period at around eight thirty, quarter to nine, and then
we'll start the dancing. Okay, but again there'll be a
seated dinner, there will be an open bar, silent, live auctions.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
A wonderful the Rupert's Orchestra.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Band that's going to be there, and a lot of dancing,
a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And you can still go on and register for the tickets,
but also register to be a sponsor too.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Right exactly, and you can also register for the silent auction.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
We're going to open that up a couple of weeks
before the event, so people can start bidding on items
and enjoy that. If they can't be at the event,
they can still bid on items.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And no matter where you are in Georgia, you can
come to this. Come on, come up to Atlanta, have
Weeken Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Please do and you could you never know where you
could be on our live feed. We're going to have
a live feed with Facebook as well.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Oh okay, so that should be fun.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So you can you can go on live and see
it happen, yes, exactly, and then you see what you
missed everything.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, and you'll be there next year.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Give some money and you come back and there you are.
Oh man, what what are some of the things that
you need now that that are that you that you
have a need for in doing what you do? What
are some of the things you need right now?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Our needs are really operating expenses and things to help
us within the clinic. We go through a lot of
laundry in our rooms with each patient we have to
change those out, so things like office supplies and clinical
supplies is very helpful and just money to support our
doctors of physical therapy and our physical therapy.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Assistants that are treating the patients.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That it does take us a lot and we need
a lot of people there to help the patients, So
we do need the funding for that's very important for.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Us right now.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Do you use volunteers there?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We do.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We have a really nice volunteer group and we are
always looking for more to get involved. But we have
some really wonderful groups that we've partnered with the national charity.
Leave of Dunwoodie has been wonderful with us and many
other individuals and patients. We have a lot of patients
volunteer as well.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I was going to say that a patient would be
monumental yees volunteering, that'd be a great volunteer.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They're great advocates for us and provide great testimonials for
our services. And of course our board is always involved
as well. They're great at supporting our events.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
To who makes up your board to tell me that
it's all.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Business, individuals, medical professionals and former patients.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So it's a really great mix men and women and
varied background. So it's I think it's a really great
mix this year, and I think we're going to do
great things together, great.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Great well, certainly kicking it off with the pink affair,
that's going to be that'll be good. So what are
some of the other programs you offer at Turning Point.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Well, we briefly mentioned counseling, so we do have a
lot of support groups that we have. We have young survivors,
we have caregivers and supporters and partner workshops, things to
really help not only the patient but the families, So
we do.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Have those programs available.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Those are funded by a grant and also some donations,
so those types of programs will continue on with more
donations as well. We have an amazing exercise program. We
have a partnership with Maple Tree Cancer Alliance and they
specialize in onlogy. Exercise programs are specifically is for breast
cancer survivors and this program has just really exploded over
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the last.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Couple of years.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
The exercise therapists they have there are just amazing and
our patients love them and there are one on one
sessions available and there's also group sessions available in that.
So those are some other exciting programs that we're moving forward.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Were what they use those sessions for to They're.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
All different things.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
So a lot of them are flexibility and movement to
continue on with the physical therapy that you have, but
it's also strength. A lot of times your balance is
impacted and people don't think about that your lymph notes
can be impacted, so exercise can help reduce the swelling.
And we're entering into a new exercise program where we're
working with another gentleman who is collecting our data to
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show that weightlifting does reduce swelling and helps those with lymphidema.
So it's another avenue that we're exploring this year.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
And you mentioned we mentioned men having breast cancer and
that you don't having now, but you have had them. Yes,
what is it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
It has to be a difficult for them, But what
all do they go They go through it differently than
women something like that.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Not really, they're really going through the same types of
things they're going to go through. It could have been
identified through a mammogram some other method there.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
There may have been a lump, but.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The procedures from a surgery standpoint are going to be similar,
and then the recovery would be similar as well. And
as far as movement, the same types of areas are
going to be impacted. They can also have lymph node involvements,
so many of the things are similar. I think from
an emotional and psychological standpoint, it's very different and it
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has to be approached differently with them.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, I guess you, Yeah, I guess it would be
psychologically it would just impact to so differently. Yes, to have.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
That, it's just something that men are like, I have
breast cancer. I would have never thought of that and
it's something I'm not sure they want to communicate broadly.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I wondered about that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that's a barrier as well.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And I think that's some men probably go a little
longer than they should getting diagnosed because it's like what
is this? And yeah, a little embarrassing, but there could
be those types of barriers to care for them.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Well, it's just that it's so foreign to men men. Yes,
I'm sure the psychological damage has to be You have
to deal with that too, don't you. Yeah, absolutely, And
do you have to deal with that with them if
they if they come in and one comes in today,
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you're gonna have to deal with him somehow. You get
a psychologist in there something exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, that again, that would be a one on one
with their physical therapist putting together that care plan. But
that would probably be an area of identification for them
to focus on and work with the counselor on.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah. I just always think about that because I know
how terrible it is for women. Yeah, men's a different story.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
That's totally different minds totally.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
One thing I'd like to mention about our counselors is
they are breast cancer survivors one of them is a
former patient of ours, so they have a very good
understanding and are really great with our survivors and the groups.
We've gotten a lot of compliments on them because they
are survivors and have been through it.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's great. That's great. And you mentioned one more time
that you do have outside of the Atlanta area. You
do have places that people can go to to find
to get the help they need for this.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Actually we don't have brick and mortar, but you can
do online virtual appointments for them, absolutely, and they can
just call our office and we can schedule it there.
And all of our physical therapists are trained to do
this online, so it would allow probably a little easier
scheduling since it's not just limited to one or two people, right.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Right, Well, you probably did that. You know, it's better
than nothing having somebody out out in the hinterlands of Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And if we can, we'd love to bring that patient
in and have a personal, one on one evaluation and
then you know, maybe go back to doing virtual care,
so there's not such an issue with trying to get
to our clinics.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Let's tell them one more time about we're going to
tell them about a Pink Affair one more time. It's
the twenty second of March.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
It's a Saturday, Saturday, March twenty second, six to ten
at the Georgium Georgia Aquarium Ballroom, and we'd love to
have everybody there.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
And the goal is to raise two hundred and fifty thousand, yes,
which you're going to do. I know, I feel like
you will. And it sounds like it's gonna be a
great time to go get tickets. Where should you go, yes.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
My turning Point dot org or Pink twenty twenty five
dot give smart dot com.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And where should it go to get just general information
on turning.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Point My Turningpoint dot org or they can give us
a call and our phone number is on that website
as well.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
All right, thank you so much for coming today. Thank
it's good to see you guys again. Thank you as well,
and good luck this year on a peak affair.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
That's Lois Rusco, CEO of Turning Point. You can find
out more about them and about the Pink Affair at
Myturningpoint dot org. You can find out more about Georgia
Focus and Me at John Clark at Georgiannewsnetwork dot com.
Thanks for listening. I'll talk to you next week right
here in your local radio station on Georgia Focus
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