Day 22: Sandy Arlin Jauregui-Baza, survivor. “Life doesn’t have to end after diagnosis. It can be a wake-up call to start making YOU your biggest priority in life.”

PROFILES IN LUNG CANCER
Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2015

Day 22: Sandy Arlin Jauregui-Baza, survivor
“Life doesn’t have to end after diagnosis. It can be a wake-up call to start making YOU your biggest priority in life.”

Who are you?
 
I’m a 32 year-old “kid” from Los Angeles, California with an amazing husband and two lovely fur babies: Gambit and AmaDablam. I love everything about the great outdoors, from camping, hiking, jogging, kayaking…. well, you get it

 

What is your diagnosis history? 

 

I was diagnosed a few months short of 30, at age 29, with NSCLC. At the time of diagnosis, I’d already developed multiple lung nodules in both lungs and lesion along my spinal column; in other words, I was considered a stage IV patient....continue reading...