The Crews's New Audiobook
- Terry and Rebecca Crews have a new audiobook out on Audible, “Stronger Together: How Fame, Failure and Faith Transformed Our Lives.”
- Rebecca Crews is a breast cancer survivor; she battled her disease during the pandemic.
- Crews credits a mammogram with saving her life; pre-menopausal women should get mammograms annually.
“I didn't behave badly because I was frustrated with Rebecca. I didn't behave badly because I resented her or hated her either,” he says. “I behaved badly because I was self righteous. I believed I was entitled to behave the way I did. I would never admit that my failures were a basic lack of a self discipline that every marriage needs to survive.”
The duo acknowledges the challenges of their life, and particularly the last year. “This year has been marked by incredible challenges. We've had our private struggles within our own family as well as some very public struggles too,” Rebecca says. “We are holding strong to our core values of optimism, gratitude and reconciliation.”
Terry, meanwhile, is grateful. “I like to call myself the most grateful man in America, because I know where I came from, and I also know where I could be,” he says. “I look at it like wow, I dodged all of that by the grace of God, and I am so thankful.”
Rebecca is focusing on practicing gratitude. “In a rough time, I started a gratitude journal. I know it's old school but I started writing down every single little thing that was even remotely good,” she explains. “Over the course of a year, I ended up with a list of almost 200 things. That goes a long way toward changing your attitude.”
The Crews’s Cancer Story
Rebecca, 55, was diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago and is now cancer-free. Terry told SurvivorNet in a previous interview what hearing the diagnosis was like. "I actually felt a mild panic attack. The only way I can describe it, I felt like my insides were melting, like no, no, no, no, no this can't be. No. But Rebecca's strength was so amazing," he said.
Related: Breast Cancer, An Overview
Terry says Rebecca called on him to be strong, because they needed to fight her cancer. "She was like, ‘Hey. I said, don't look at me like that.’ Yeah, she did. She said, ‘don't look at me like that’,” he says. “And I was like, right, right. OK, and it shook me. It was almost like she grabbed me, like come on, man. Wake up, you know? And I just was like, yeah, yes, yes. And she was like, I'm ready to fight. And I knew I needed to be strong."
The Importance of Mammograms
Rebecca credits a mammogram for saving her life. It’s so important to continue screening for cancer, even during the pandemic. Mammograms look for lumps in the breast, and signs of breast cancer.
Related: When You're Getting a Mammogram, Ask About Dense Breasts
Dr. Connie Lehman, the chief of the Breast Imaging Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, explains in an earlier interview the importance of getting mammograms. She says, “If you haven’t gone through menopause yet, I think it’s very important that you have a mammogram every year. We know that cancers grow more rapidly in our younger patients, and having that annual mammogram can be lifesaving.”
“After menopause, it may be perfectly acceptable to reduce that frequency to every two years,” says Dr. Lehman. “But what I’m most concerned about is the women who haven’t been in for a mammogram for two, three, or four years, those women that have never had a mammogram. We all agree regular screening mammography saves lives.”
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