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Survivor, Board Member, Vice President
| Joni Fixel |
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| Survivor, Vice President, Grant Writing |
I was born in Allegan, Michigan and moved to the Muskegon
area after High School. I have held many jobs and continually strived
to learn new skills throughout the years. In Muskegon
I met my husband and we had two daughters. I have worked in the electric
industry in various roles that include janitorial,
boiler and turbine operations, transmission control, generation trading. In 1993, we
moved to the Lansing, Michigan
area where I began my education. While finishing law school I became the Vice President of
Business Development and
in-house counsel for a private corporation. A few years later I left the energy industry to open my own
law practice
in East Lansing, Michigan. In 2004, I was told that I needed a routine hysterectomy for some large
fibroids. Assured that they were benign 99% of the time,
I was surprised to wake up to a new doctor advising me I had
a rare cancer. I feel blessed that I have my gynecologist/oncologist
who had seen and treated LMS in some of his other
patients. It was truly a blessing that Dr. Meunier was on call the day of my surgery. His skill in removing a football
sized tumor with wide margins is the reason that I
have been NED(no evidence of disease) since the original surgery. As
a Board member it is my goal to raise funds and promote awareness to find the treatments and cure needed for this dragon.
I have been personally enriched by the families, friends and patients of LMS that I have met through this foundation.
We have
lost some members and my heart has been broken too often by the loss of my friends to allow this dragon to continue
unchecked. Hugs & prayers, Joni Fixel Survivor Board
MemberVice President
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