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It all started about 8 years ago. I was sitting at home when it got the news; I would never be the same again. It changed my life forever. My two sisters and I were just sitting at home. I was about ten years old at the time and my sisters ten and twelve. We were having a good day until my mom and my dad walked in the door crying.

As soon as I turned around I could tell something was not right. Something was defiantly wrong. My mom has tears rolling down her face, and you could tell that my dad had been crying. I went up to them and asked them what was wrong, but they would no give me an answer. Later that night they called me and my two sisters down to the family room for a family meeting. You could tell that there was something horrible going on. We all sat down and started to talk and that is when my parents informed me that my had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.


After about a year of having the cancer and doing chemo therapy treatments she went back to the doctor to see if the cancer had slowed down or not. We found out some horrible news that day, her cancer had spread from her ovaries into her lungs. The doctor told us that she needed to have surgery done to cut the cancer lumps off of her lungs. We took my mom to the university of Utah hospital to have the surgery done. All of us were terrified. As soon as my mom was out of surgery we knew that she was going to be ok. We even thought that it may have stopped the cancer.

It was about a year later when my mom and I went to doctor again down at the University of Utah. I was waiting in the waiting room for what seemed like hours, and then my mom finally came out of the doctor’s office. She had a huge smile on her face, and that time I knew something good had happened. When we got home we sat down as a family again and that’s my mom told us that her cancer had gone into remission, but the doctor also said not to get to excited because there was high probability that it would come back.

Unfortunately the cancer did come back. About two years after it had come back we found out that the chemo was not working like we had hoped. We found out that the cancer had spread to her brain and that she needed to have another surgery and she needed it soon. She had been in the hospital for a month before Christmas, she was not healthy enough to come home but she insisted on it anyways, she would spend Christmas in the hospital. It was about a week after Christmas she was in the hospital again and she had gone completely blind and deaf in one ear. They transported her to a hospital in Ogden to have hr surgery. The day before she went into surgery I got admitted the hospital for kidney problems. I was in there for about a week then I got out. The day after I got out I went to visit my mom/ I will never forget that day.