Cancer in the Platte Valley

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of stories about Michelle McWain. She is a wife, a mother, a Carbon County School District No. 2 employee and a breast cancer survivor.

Michelle’s McWain’s hair was gone. Her breasts had been removed. She had lost 30 pounds.

Breast cancer took many things from Michelle. But for everything she lost, she gained even more.

When Michelle was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012, her life had instantly changed. She spent days driving back and forth from treatments; fighting the illness caused by chemotherapy.

She was fighting for her life­­—but never once...