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Her Battle is My Battle

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My mother is the most selfless person you could ever meet. She is kind, caring, loving and forgiving. Never could I imagine something so devastating could happen to such a warm hearted, generous person, but it could happen, and it did. It also happened to me. Cancer not only affects the person with the disease but those that love them. She was diagnosed with HER2 positive breast cancer. My life came crashing down. She is the one that keeps us together. She is our rock, and the thought of anything happening to her filled me with anguish and sometimes rage. I love my mother more than anything in the whole entire world. It gave me immense pain to see her suffer. I would have given anything to take her troubles away. Every bad thought imaginable had crossed my mind, but I knew I had to stay strong and positive for her. It was a yearlong nightmare with intense chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. I remember her sitting in a wheelchair in an elevator going to the operating room. I thought it would be the last time I would ever see her, and I could not help but cry. My life was ending. After hours and hours of waiting we were given the news that she was in recovery. Weeks after that she began radiation and months after that she was in remission. That meant that the cancer was gone. This was the greatest news I could ever receive. Her recovery was my recovery. It was then that I realized that god gives his hardest battles, to the strongest people. She is strong and I am stronger too.