Norine V. Rathbone

I am proud to start this blog with one of my personal inspirations in life. She was my mother's best friend growing up and now is my "aunt".

Norine Rathbone isn't your average woman, she's stronger and has a bigger story to tell. I've known Norine since the day I was born, and she has changed my life as well as the lives of countless others around her. She has a big personality, you'd know that by spending all of 30 seconds with her, but in that 30 seconds you'd know that she has an even bigger heart. (Fyi, that's her
and I in the picture...)

A passion for baseball is in her blood. She played g rowing up so it seems only natural that she would be the first female to break into the Men's Senior Baseball League, and even more natural that she could prove to the men that she deserved to be there just as much as they did. In 2001, however, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and fought every day to survive. She endured a double mastectomy, and the loss of her hair from the chemothearpy. She kept on with her life, bald head and all. She is a testament to the strength a person can have amist huge adversity, and through her struggle she found ways to lend her help and experience to others. Through a set of circumstances she formed an internet freinship with a woman named Motoko in Japan, who was dying of cancer. Norine went to her to help her "sister" in her time of great need, and to be a shoulder to a woman suffering in a country where illness is not widely accepted. Although Motoko has passed, Norine still remians in contact with her husband and young son.

Norine has always been one to be open about her life and struggles, if for no other reason than to let people know that no matter what you look like, where you come from, or whatever difficulty life may throw at you, it is not at all out of God's hands.

She currently works as a photographer and lives with her husband of 30 years, Ed, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I encourage you to explore the links I've provided and read for yourself why Norine is such an extraordinary, ordinary woman.


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