CC Webster had just started dating the man who would eventually become her husband when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at age 29. CC went through the loss of self that so many people who have cancer experience. But instead of seeing her as a sick person, her then-boyfriend just kept on seeing her as the woman he loved. Their relationship transformed as CC underwent treatment and began to lose herself in sickness, but their love was just as strong throughout the whole process.
“When I woke up from my initial biopsy in NYU Langone … I looked to the end of the bed and I saw Matt, and he said, ‘We’re gonna be fine.’ That was the first time I felt safe,” CC explains.
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