Introduction

This is a blog that we as Solvej's family in Cape Town have started for our sister Solvej. We hope that it will be a way for Solvej's friends and family all over the world to keep updated with her life, her treatment and her progress.

We start this particular journey of Solvej's in 2005, to give a little background and fill you in on Solvej's life over the past few years.

In January 2005 Solvej was diagnosed with breast cancer. She received treatment, and went on to become a champion survivor. She joined the Dragon Boat Racing Breast Cancer Survivor Team (Amabelle Belles), becoming a face for breast cancer survivors. Over the past few years she has travelled with the team to Singapore, Switzerland and Canada, and represented South African Dragon Boat Racing in Prague.

When Solvej has not been training on the water or flying around the world, she has been working at Fairheads Trust Company as a training officer. She has spent the past few years serving in the children's work and a homeless housing project at church. Solvej has been a generous helper to her family here in South Africa this past year, being the much loved aunty and baby sitter of her niece Chiara. She was a pillar of strength to our family earlier this year while she nursed our mamma Fransie during her short battle with cancer.