In early 2020, just when the country was stunned with the spread of the COVID-19 virus and its associated lockdowns and restrictions, Amber was reeling from a breast cancer diagnosis.
“Everyone was freaking out about COVID,” she says. “And I was worrying about my job, my friends and family, and possibly dying of cancer.” Over the next 18 months, Amber endured seven surgeries. COVID restrictions meant support was limited to friends dropping care packages on the front porch. But she was grateful, in the midst of the pandemic, to have the surgeries that saved her life.
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