To the Editor:

On Friday, April 1, the Pinelands Regional girls tennis team sponsored a fundraising benefit forour family. Cancer is an awful word no one wants to hear. Most people think it can never happen to their family or themselves. This is a journey that our family did not choose to take, but it came upon us anyway. Fear, anger, denial, outrage, pain, anguish, grief, loss of control are many phrases that affect us as we travel down this path.

Cancer makes you wake up and realize you cannot do it alone.

April 13, 2016