{"id":41272,"date":"2011-04-13T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=41272"},"modified":"2011-08-03T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:11:51","slug":"auxiliary-working-to-help-survivors-cast-away-their-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/04\/auxiliary-working-to-help-survivors-cast-away-their-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Auxiliary Working to Help Survivors Cast Away Their Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Fly<\/a>
Fly tying is a craft that attempts to replicate nature to help anglers attract fish. (Janine Gelineau\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Professional<\/a>
Professional fly tyer Mike Motyl gives a fly-tying demonstration at the UConn Health Center April 11. (Janine Gelineau\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marcia Reid Marsted believes a positive attitude and a calming environment can do wonders for a healing body.<\/p>\n

The former UConn Health Center employee and volunteer would know. She\u2019s beaten two cancers.<\/p>\n

Two hobbies helped her through those battles. One was photography.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found that using my photography to document what was going on with my life and my world during my treatment helped me to think of something besides how I felt,\u201d Marsted says. \u201cDoing what made me happy helped me to be more positive day to day.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also led to her publishing the book \u201cAbout My Hair: A Journey to Recovery<\/a>,\u201d a collection of photographs to go with a narrative of what she went through.<\/p>\n

Along the way Marsted took up fly fishing, which she describes as \u201ckind of Zen.\u201d She\u2019s convinced of its therapeutic benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s relaxing, very meditative,\u201d Marsted says. \u201cThe environment helps calm the people who are doing the fishing. Being calm and relaxed and not focused on how you feel is good for the sick person. The more positive you are about your life and how you feel about the world around you, the better it is for your health and ability to get over your cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Pauline<\/a>
Pauline Bishop from Casting for Recovery (left) and UConn Health Center Auxiliary Facilitator Irene Engel accept registrations for the Auxiliary's pig roast fundraiser at Winding Trails in Farmington April 30. (Janine Gelineau\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s that belief that drives the concept of Casting for Recovery<\/a>, a Vermont nonprofit that organizes fly fishing retreats for breast cancer survivors.<\/p>\n

In an effort to send at least two people to this summer\u2019s retreat in West Cornwall, the UConn Health Center Auxiliary<\/a> invites everyone to a pig roast fundraiser April 30 <\/strong>at Winding Trails in Farmington.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met with the Casting for Recovery folks last summer and were very impressed,\u201d says Auxiliary Facilitator Irene Engel, herself a breast cancer survivor. \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in my mind the work they\u2019re doing is making a really big difference in these women\u2019s lives. We hope to help a few more women experience that this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fly fishing is the theme of the art exhibit that will be on display in the Health Center\u2019s main lobby and mezzanine through May 4. \u201cAngling Art\u201d features the work of 14 fly fishing artists. A fly tying demonstration was held at the Health Center April 11. A fly casting demonstration is scheduled for April 20<\/strong> in the center courtyard, and another fly tying demonstration will take place outside the Food Court April 26<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n

The Winding Trails event will include a raffle, art sale, music from the Blue Skye Boys, and demonstrations on fly casting and fly tying. Tickets are $50, of which $20 is tax deductible, and will be available at the Connucopia Gift Shop, or by calling 860-679-8004. Download a ticket form ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More information about Marsted\u2019s book, \u201cAbout My Hair: A Journey to Recovery,\u201d is available through marciareidmarsted@mac.com<\/a> or at http:\/\/www.capellidangelipress.net<\/a>. More information about the Capelli d\u2019Angeli Foundation, which she established in 2004 to publish a new edition of the book, is available at http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/marsted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcia Reid Marsted believes a positive attitude and a calming environment can do wonders for a healing body. The former UConn Health Center employee and volunteer would know. She\u2019s beaten two cancers. Two hobbies helped her through those battles. One was photography. \u201cI found that using my photography to document what was going on with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-41272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 16:45:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43109,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions\/43109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41272"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=41272"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}