Residence: Tamarac Occupation: Stay-at-home mother Age: 39 Diagnosed: June 2017 Treated at: Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale The Discovery “I had a botched breast reduction surgery in 2004, which left me with monstrous amounts of scar tissue. So, I’ve always had lumps and bumps. When I got pregnant with my daughter, the lumps moved all over
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Residence: Fort Lauderdale Occupation: Lawyer/sports radio host, 790 The Ticket (WAXY-AM) Age: 35 Diagnosed: November 2016 Treated at: Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa The Discovery “I was sitting on the couch with my then-boyfriend (now, fiancé). He was trying to get my attention, joking around, and he poked the side of my breast by accident. He goes,
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Residence: Boca Raton Occupation: Clinical sales representative, Cranial Technologies Age: 38 Diagnosed: February 2015 Treated at: Lynn Cancer Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital The Discovery “It was the week I was due to deliver my daughter, Saylor. I felt a lump that I assumed was a milk duct, so I showed it to my
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• A week before my interview at the University of Chicago for a plastic-surgery residency, I received an email saying I needed to prepare a five-minute presentation about myself. One of my slides showed a photo of me as a child, holding a stethoscope and listening to my dad’s heart. That was the picture that
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Get Ready for Grand Ghoul The 17th annual Signature Grand Ghoul promises a spook-tacular evening to benefit 2-1-1 Broward. The event, slated for Oct. 29 at Signature Grand in Davie, will be hosted by former Miami Dolphins wideout O.J. McDuffie and Seth Levit, CEO of the Jason Taylor Foundation. Guests can mingle with NFL alumni
Read MoreThe original idea, Jason Bonham says, was to keep a house in England and buy something quaint in South Florida to see if he and Jan, his wife of now 28 years, liked living in America. “Fourteen years later, we’re still here,” says Bonham of his family, which includes daughter Jaz and son Jager, both
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When asked about his run on “Saturday Night Live” during the early 1990s, Rob Schneider quips that “all I remember about those days is everyone telling us we weren’t as good as the original cast.” Some three decades later, the SNL era that produced Schneider, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, David Spade and Chris Rock stands
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If you had to go old school, and seek directions from someone in the nearest mildly populated town (say, Fort Meade, some 15 miles away), you might never find Streamsong Resort amid the back roads of Central Florida. But, thankfully, GPS plots a course that delivers guests to one of the state’s hidden gems when
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Even as a youngster growing up in Houston, I knew I wanted to be a professional athlete. I didn’t know what avenue it was going take, but that was my goal. Never in a million years did I think it would be in professional wrestling. The overall confidence that I’ve always had came from playing
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Claudio Sorrentino hasn’t built a burgeoning empire entirely on other people’s regret, but the continuing growth of Body Details certainly can be attributed, in part, to that emotion. That’s because the state-of-the-art PicoWay laser used at the company’s multiple South Florida locations provides more than just hair removal and skin rejuvenation. The Class IV laser,
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Some hotels go out of their way to replicate a residential experience for guests. Then there’s Encore Resort, the 963-acre, master-planned vacation community just west of Orlando for which the saying “home away from home” is both spot on and an understatement. On the one hand, Encore (855.828.7767; encorereunion.com) puts those presidential hotel suites to
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The three longest years of her young life seemed to dissipate in the late-afternoon breeze as Sonali took her place on the Ford Stage at SunFest with the other members of her four-piece band. In a few hours, Pitbull would bring the annual spring music festival in downtown West Palm Beach to a rousing conclusion
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