Deanna Favre shares her story

by Press Gazette
Source: PackersNews.com

Mar. 31, 2007

It's Deanna Favre's story, but she's sharing the cover of a magazine with her husband, Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre.

The cover story in Beyond: Live & Thrive After Breast Cancer tells the familiar story of how Favre learned she had early stage breast cancer just four days after her younger brother's funeral in 2004, received treatment, is doing "great" and has started a foundation that pays medical bills for women with breast cancer who are uninsured or underinsured.

Some of her comments from the spring/summer issue of the magazine for breast cancer patients and survivors:

On her faith: "I was never in the spotlight before Brett's dad passed away (in December 2003). I was his wife. Period. But all of a sudden I'm at a game and they show me on camera. Then, my brother dies and then the cancer came. I'm just thrust into the spotlight, and I'm thinking there is a reason for this."

On chemotherapy: "I lost everything — my hair, my eyebrows, eyelashes — and yet I still had to shave my legs. The one place a woman really wants to lose hair, and I didn't."

On their relationship: "He's more attentive now. He never was a big romantic, but he is more so now. He realized how you can lose people you love."

 

Brett Favre also is interviewed. Among his comments: "I found out that my family and I are not invincible."