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| Survivor speech at Green Valley/ Sahuarita Relay for Life 2012 |
I have always wanted to get involved with some type of charity work,
find a cause, have a purpose. Well, this year I found mine. In January
of 2010, I was diagnosed with a malignant Giant Cell Tumor of the spine.
This was not the first time that I had had this tumor, but it was the
first time that I had been told it was cancer. I had already had two
surgeries in 2007 to remove the first tumor and now I was about to begin
the process all over again. Although this time it would not be as easy.
My battle with cancer has been the single most difficult thing
I've had to deal with in my life. At one point, I even had to fight this
illness while my husband was deployed. But I'm not here to talk about
the bad things in my life.
