My mom recently passed away of ovarian cancer March 11. She was only 33 years old. It was really hard to see her go through chemo and radiation. She was in a lot of pain. At first when her pain wasn’t that bad it was fun, and I could have conversations with her. But then things got worse and she took a lot of medication so she wasn’t herself. It was hard to talk to her. Sometimes she wouldn’t even know who I was. The week she died she was always sleeping, I couldn’t talk to her at all. It was so hard seeing her so weak too.

The day she died I was at school. I was going to try to wake her up before I left to school but I didn’t want to disturb her. I just wanted to hear her voice one last time. I just left to school and while I was at school I was already crying because I kind of felt like she was gone. During lunch I was called to the office. My aunt was there to pick me up. When I saw her she told me and that was it…I cried and cried.

And now I want to support ovarian cancer because I know how it felt seeing someone I love go through it and I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through it either.

Submitted by Alana Ballor