A fight, a battle, a struggle — while her experience with breast cancer was all of these and more, Terri Garrison describes her journey in a different way: A blessing. “It made me a lot stronger, and it made me really realize that none of us knows what each other goes through, and we should always be kind and try to be compassionate,” Garrison said. At the time of her diagnosis in December 2011, Garrison lived a busy life, often pulling double shifts at the nursing home where she worked and also managing to clean 50 to 60 houses every two weeks. read more