Alia’s dream to meet her favorite artist, Cavetown came true today! There couldn’t be a more deserving guest than her. 6 weeks after graduating college, Alia was diagnosed with a very rare form of bone cancer called Metastatic Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma. After two brain surgeries, radiation treatments, and 7 months of chemotherapy, she still lives with several brain tumors, a fist-sized tumor in her chest, and several bone lesions in her spine and elsewhere.
Despite the pain, fear, and anxiety, her thirst for life has never been greater. Alia explained to us, “I am very fortunate to be where I am today and I’m forever grateful for the hope and love that I feel in my life. I don't know what my future holds, nobody does, but I will always strive to better myself as a person, and I am taking this life journey in stride and learning not to let it define me. I am not my diagnosis, I am not a statistic, I am not my disease.” Huge thanks to Robbie from Cavetown for spending time to make her smile today.
Video by Gavin Booth
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