After her third round of chemotherapy, the hospital doctors had some unfortunate news to share with Lexe Selman-Richards and family. The cancer fight was over.
“The doctors told my parents to say goodbye and that I wasn’t going to make it,” Selman-Richards said.
Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia cancer at the age of 17, Selman-Richards would not give up. Just months away from beginning her freshman soccer campaign at the UA, the dream was thrown out the door. She would just keeping telling herself: “I can do hard things.”
“My mom used to whisper it to me when I was in the ICU basically on my death bed,” Selman-Richards said.