After each beating cancer, mother-daughter tandem will head Relay for Life - Southernminn.com
Cathy can do that now after being diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2014 and subsequently being declared free of cancer cells in December of the same year. The mom and daughter will serve as honorary co-chairs of the 2015 Le Sueur County Relay for Life event on July 10 and 11. Mikki was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in June of 1973. Cancer is never easy, but that particular kind and that particular... The doctor told me I had a 5 percent chance of living,” she said. Mikki endured painful and exhaustive cobalt radiation treatments used at the time, which still have side effects today. I just thought ‘nope’,” she said. “You’re not gonna take a mother. Mikki and Cathy didn’t need the fight against cancer to bond them. So close, in fact, that the two seem seemed to actually share the effects of Cathy’s treatment. Cathy lost her hair during chemo and felt consistently exhausted, but she didn’t get sick the way many patients do. Meanwhile, every time she had a treatment, Mikki found herself sick at home, throwing up. “The doctor said it was sympathetic... “It’s easier to [go through cancer] yourself than to see one of your kids going through it. ”. Cathy said she felt her mother’s strength all the way through. “I took that attitude of ‘they’re not going to tell me what I can and can’t do. We’re just gonna do it’,” she said. Source: www.southernminn.com
