Leslie was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, at the age of 42. At the time, she had three children - two daughters, Shana and Jordan, and a son, Ryan. A junior in high school at the time of the diagnosis, Ryan Curl, the middle child, remembers a lot about his mom’s journey.
“She had (the cancer) removed, and then had to get her lymph nodes removed too,” Curl said. “Then they had to do chemotherapy and radiation. It was just a tough year. In all honesty, as a kid I had no idea what was happening. I knew she was going to get treatment.