Her sister had already lost a battle with cancer. Now the highly competitive college coach and former LPGA Tour player was faced with a battle of her own-one much tougher than she’d figured.
More than anything, I love to play a round of golf. Most days I can. When my body lets me. My diagnosis came on one of those days that are supposed to be special. It was Thanksgiving 2012. I had gone into the hospital with abdominal pains. Simple enough, you hope. But at 8 AM that holiday morning, the doctor came into my room and told me straight up, “You have ovarian cancer.”
The initial fear was significant. I’d lost my sister to cancer just a couple of years before this. But when the doctor assured me that the cancer had not spread, I told myself, “It’s OK. They’ve caught this in time.”
In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the medical teams ran their tests. I didn’t have one kind of cancer, but two: ovarian and endometrial cancer in the uterus. This wasn’t going to be so easy.
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