I think of a hero as someone who faces some of the most adverse conditions in life and somehow keeps their positivity; this describes my mom. To start with, my mom suddenly found herself in the hospital with a brain tumor and a much unexpected diagnosis of cancer. She handled it by deciding to crack jokes, and even woke up from brain surgery cracking jokes to her medical team! Next, many people take their diagnosis of cancer as a death sentence and go home and mope about it. That’s not my mom, instead she decided it simply meant that she needed to make the very most out of life. We began going on little road trips and going to events and living life to the fullest. All of this between chemo and radiation, of course, but she takes
