Hoop van de generaties, espoir des générations, Hoffnung von Generationen, Hope of Generations, Упование поколений, 世代希望

Here's a story of a strong woman who has cancer already for 15 years.

You've some people who has every possible bad luck you never can imagine and still they are fighting each day against, thanks to the support of their children and grand-children.

Katherine is divorced from an alkoholicus and has runned a jewelery-business for 30 years already
After her divorce in the mid '80s, her ex-husband shot her and her two daughters with a Long Rifle. Result? Life must go on and she has taken care for her two young daughters. Her ex was never been caught for that incident...
In 1992 she was coincidentally examinated and brest-cancer was found with malignant growth in the cervix. This disease was very exceptional, but thanks to the chemotherapy in two steps the cancer was more or less mastered. More or less, because in these situation you don't want to live anymore with the weakness and absorbing job. Certainly for a single independant with two small children. When the disease was finally cured, another liver-cancer was found as a "result" of the "healed" breast-cancer. Chemo, beams and pills again! She was one of very few persons who has practically no vital organs, like no gall, a piece of bowels, no ovaries and no appendix at all. And since three years she is living with a stoma.
She is really a medical miracle, because all docters gave her only 6 months and she is sill living now!
Thanks to her two well-growned daughters and her grand-son...

Q & A's from Katherine:

What's your important lesson for life until now?
"Follow your heart, do your own thinkings (thoughts), irrespective of the impacts for others"
Who do you admire?
"For all women who combines a big carreer with her family occupations"
When did you cried last time?
"In May on Mothers' Day"
What have you learned from love?
"It's a dream in a bag. If it's over, then they smashed it away"
How do you feel when you get older?
"A double feeling, it's really calling more brains within years. But as a cancer-patient also a faster
(physical) decline within years. I try to keep myself healthy and that's why I'm a proud woman"
Which problem our Belgian government should solve ASAP?
"They should shorten legally their own conference-time and bring more women on the pollitical front"
You are valuable?
"I'm not special"
Can you manage yourself in your life?
"Always. Although I've also my sorrows"
Who is your best friend and why?
"My dog. He's honest, always happy and I was never felt used"
You're thinking different if you're lying in bed?
"Absolutely. I think a lot then, because I miss a companion, who brings me harmony and helps me solving problems"
What are clothes telling you?
"A flashy cloth does upswing my moods, but mostly I wear dark colors"
What was your character as a child?
"I was so stubborn and still I am"
When were you lost?
"At a single-party. Never again"
Why many people are unhappy?
"Because they do a job they don't want to do. Because they don't want to provide efforts. Because desire is gone: everything and everyone is everywhere and always ready for buying"
How do you want your success?
"With my jewelery-designs"
Will sex be better within years?
"I don't know. In my relationship, sex is the least important of it. Tenderness is more important"
What's your perfect day?
"Many customers in my store and they are leaving with a good feeling"



(Source: Het laatste Nieuws Zomerreportage / Barbara Vuylsteke)