It Runs in the Family

Growing up you don’t know much about those around you. It takes years for children to familiarize themselves with their families. It takes time to learn about these people and what their lives entail. All the while, still figuring out who they are as well. My family, while we aren’t very close, we are all very much alike in many ways. Resilient, being one of them. While several members of my family have had cancer, different types, there are two in particular I want to cast a bit of light on.

My great-great grandmother, was a survivor. She was one of the people I grew to look up to the most. She was fierce and sassy and brave. Surviving breast cancer twice, she lived until she was 103. A double mastectomy and she was around many years after to tell the tale. Now, I was only about 6 years old when she passed. I didn’t get to know her for very long, but she was the sweetest, toughest, and the most brave woman I have ever known.