The "C" word
Those days are long gone, and today she says that her crew members, flight attendants, gate agents, dispatch—her whole team has her back. It is a different company. She learned how much that support meant when her doctor told her she had breast cancer. “It literally took my breath away when my doctor told me, because how could I have breast cancer? I’m healthy! I had no family history of cancer. I exercised and ate right. I took supplements and did it all. And still I got breast cancer,” she remembers. “But thank God for my amazing medical team, my work team, my wife, my family and everyone who got me through it.”