When cancer returns for a second time, things get a lot more serious. Especially when the recurrence appears in your spine. I know because this very thing happened to me in 2014.

My family and I agreed that given the severity, my diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was beyond the scope of my beloved doctors in Wichita, Kansas. So on Sept. 9, 2014, my husband and I left for MD Anderson. That day stands out because it was my second son...