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For Bea Vasquez, cancer was not something new.
Breast cancer took her grandmother away when she was a teenager.
Because of her family history and her work with the American Cancer Society, Bea schedule mammograms every September.
“In 1998, I was so busy at work that I didn’t get a mammogram until the following March. After a second mammogram and a sonogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer,” she says.
The tumor was very small, so no chemotherapy was required, but to be safe she decided to have radiation.
“I know it may sound as if I was really informed, and I was. I was cancer-free, but what I wasn’t free of was fear. Fear of dying and leaving my daughter and mother behind. I gave this and all other worries to the Lord.”
Today, Bea enjoys traveling and grows her own trees.
“I LIVE FOR THE DAY! My first grandchild (boy) will be born in December in Toronto, Canada to my daughter Denise and my son-in-law Kris. My foster son Daniel will be a dad in March 2015. A young man that I mentored was married last month to a wonderful girl. All the kids who call me MOM are now living their blessing.”
Read Bea’s full story on Redes en Accion’s Nuestras Historias.
By The Numbers
25.1
percent
of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage
