I don’t like change. But sometimes you have to be willing to make one in order to survive.

That’s what I did. I’m a small town girl who’s lived in southern Mississippi my whole life. And except for one trip to a resort in Mexico, I haven’t travelled more than about 500 miles away from my little Gulf Coast town.

Then I came to MD Anderson for cervical cancer treatment in November 2016. Before then, I’d never even been on...