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On March 2016, I get a call from my mom saying "get to the hospital now." I kept asking "what's going on," but she kept ignoring my question. "Your grandmother is getting chemotherapy. Just get to the hospital as fast as you can." Chemo? But she's been cancer free for 4 years, why is she having chemo again? I race to the hospital, she's in surgery getting chemo implanted into her spine, and all of my family's eyes are red, they've been crying. My mom sits me down and tells me that even though 2 months before, she was claimed to be cancer free, it has spread into her spinal fluid. The doctor told us she would have 6 months if she was lucky. The cancer in her cerebral spinal fluid was building up on her brain and causing pressure. A few days

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