SOME OF OUR STATS

2001 - My husband and I were working hard; busy with two daughters in college and one son in high school. I was working as a nurse, trying to keep up with family responsibilities...

It was November 2007. I was 32 years old and in my second trimester carrying my second child. I was on a family vacation in Disney World when I discovered a lump...

I was driving in the car with my mother one summer afternoon and she noticed a visibly large lump in my chest at the top of my right breast, “ what is that?” she asked...

I am greeted each morning by the words, "Believe in miracles every day." They hang on my wall as a source of inspiration and strength, right next to a mirror that used to be the very opposite...

March 9, 2017 was like any other Thursday. I did my daily duties of getting my hubby off to work and my 16- and 13-year old children off to school. Like most days, I cooked dinner and cleaned up afterwards, and I then took a little “me time” and had a nice, relaxing shower...

March 2014, my husband and I had booked a cruise for Spring Break with our girls, then 9 and 11. I decided to go ahead and get my yearly mammogram before the trip...

I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer (de novo), at the age of 34, February 21, 2011. Since my diagnosis I have received 20 rounds of radiation to three tumors in my spine. I also received a 6 month regimen of chemotherapy...