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Gloria Olawsky

“If you don’t have a positive attitude about what’s going on in your life and keep going, it’s not going to get you anywhere. I could sit back – and even actually this last year I sat back - I thought “why is that getting filled up with fluid”. I was feeling sorry for myself, I was like “hm that’s really stupid.’ [laughs] So as old as I am, I’m going ­– so I just kept going, I kept making doctor appointments and all this good stuff. You have to have CT scans, you know what it is, having a history of cancer, my history stinks, so they do a lot of CT scans, whatever else happens. You keep fighting away and if it’s time for you to go, I guess it’s time for you to go, but I’m not quite ready yet.”