Chasity Wells’ original diagnosis for acute lymphocytic leukemia came with a 90% survival rate. But after going into remission, she began to feel unwell again. During a visit to the hospital with her husband, Jeff, they learned the initial diagnosis came without a genetic test that would’ve revealed an anomaly that made her cancer particularly resilient. By the time they returned, a doctor revealed her chances of living for another six months were under 25%.
He gave her two options: enjoy the next handful of months with her two young sons or “poison yourself to death” with extreme dosages of chemotherapy.