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For the Young and Active After 50The Tri-County’s Premier Publication
Serving Berkeley, Dorchester and Charleston Counties
March, 2009Volume 8, No 3www.lowcountrysun.sc
 By Bill Farley Night Writer Service
At her comfortable home on the In-tracoastal Waterway on the Isle of Palms,nurse-writer-actress and breast cancersurvivor Gene Glave laughs...a lot! Herlaugh is birdlike, but not like the trill of asparrow or a canary’s melodic call. Morelike the kookburra’s raucous guffaw. Allthat hilarity issuing forth from the petite,curly-headed health care professional isall the more astonishing when placed in juxtaposition to the serious medical treat-ment she has endured for the past threeyears.In January, 2006, Gene was diag-nosed with breast cancer. Bad enough,but hers was a rare form of the disease,estrogen receptor negative metaplasticspindle cell adenocarcinoma, which af-fects less than one percent of breast can-cer victims.As the manager of Pediatric Servic-es for Roper St. Francis Healthcare, sheknew right away what she was in for. Shehad administered chemotherapy manytimes to the youngest cancer patients,keeping the ones who didn’t make it inher heart and exulting over the ones whotreatment improved and even cured. Shefaced a mastectomy plus chemotherapywith adriamycin, a powerful drug nick-named the “red devil”for its red color andits generally ghastlyside effects, plus cy-toxan and taxol.The night be-fore her surgery,she gathered fam-ily and friends to-gether for a sym-bolic “burn thebra” party. Fortypeople showedup, including herminister at Sun-rise PresbyterianChurch whereshe quips that she is “an elder…inmany ways!” Unfortunately, Gene hadn’treally thought the concept through andquickly discovered that neither a cigarettelighter nor matches will actually ignite awell-constructed brassiere. That notwith-standing, she enjoyed the symbolism of the gesture and still cracks up when sheshows visitors a photo of her futile effortto torch her undergarment.The mastectomy went well.That is, it went well until Gene was safe-ly in the recovery room surrounded onceagain by well-wishers. She has no mem-ory of what happened next, but thosepresent – including the aforementionedminister- swear that she launched into alaudatory and quite explicit monologueabout her husband Dick’s sexual exper-tise! While a more somber individualmight be hugely embarrassed by such arevelation, Glave dissolves in peals of laughter whenever she relates the tale.
For Gene Glave, Laughter Really Is
Gene gets a well-deserved hug and kiss from her fella, husband, Dick.
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Financial Unretirement Index is nding
that many of the traditional attitudes aboutretirement no longer apply.For example, almost half (48%) of theAmerican workforce believes it will stillbe working at age 67—and four of the
ve top reasons given were not nancial
in nature. Instead, the most cited reasonfor continuing to work (83%) was “to staymentally engaged.”The Sun Life Financial Unretirement
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-ing working Americans’ perceptions of their ability to retire, and as these factorsand other market forces change, whetherworkers believe they will have a “tradi-tional” retirement or will enter the ranks
of the “unretired.” Unretirement is dened
as working at least 20 hours per week afterthe age when one is eligible to receive full
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“As our workforce evolves and at-titudes are impacted by economic condi-tions and world events, the nature of re-tirement in America evolves as well,” saidBob Salipante, president, Sun Life Finan-cial U.S. “Traditional views on retirementare quickly evolving and more Americansare choosing to be unretired.”Nearly 40% of workers surveyed withhousehold assets of more than $500Kstill plan to work at least part time, whileoverall, more than 77% of those planningto work beyond age 67 will do so to earnenough money to live well.The Index also examined a broadarray of factors including economics,
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on Americans’ plans for retirement.It found that only 46% of those surveyed
are “very condent” that they will have
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of 67. Only 28% are “very condent” that
they will be able to take care of medical
expenses and 26% are “not at all con
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To learn more about the Unretirement  Index, visit the Web site at www.unretire-mentindex.com.
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