I was diagnosed on April 3, 2000 at the age of 39.

Beverley

Hello

My name is Beverley, and I am from Australia. I was diagnosed in April 2000 and have had a reoccurrance each year about the same time. I get on top of it and then it returns.

I know that I will beat IBC, and I will do this with the support of family, friends and doctors who listen to me.

I have had to learn quickly, that if I want answers, I have to ask the questions, and if I want to be heard, I must speak up as no-one else can do this for me.

And if one more person tells me to be positive, I will probably brain them and then pick them up and give them a big fat kiss.

I wish you all love and happiness and please remember that the only time we really have is this very moment. The past is gone, we only experience the present, and the future can be even better than we hope.

Please click on the title of the song in order to hear the music.

The Rose

Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleed.

Some say love it is a hunger,
an endless aching need.
I say love it is a flower,
and you its only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance.

It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely,
and the road has been too long,
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,

Just remember in the Winter
far beneath the bitter snows,
lies the seed that with the sun's love,
in the Spring becomes the rose.

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words and music
by Amanda McBroom