WKMG-TV is a happier place after learning that morning traffic reporter Jessica Sanchez beat cancer and will be returning to work soon.
She was treated for non-Hodgkins Lymphoma after x-rays showed a tumor in her lungs.
During her ten months of treatment, including blood transfusions and chemo, she started a blog called "Let's Be Real."
This week, she wrote about her ordeal. Here is a part of it:
I had forgotten what “normal” felt like. Energy and motivation had become as foreign to my mind as the tumor was to my body. I lost interest in pretty much everything except feeling better.
She went on to discuss the effects of the treatment:
The pain I felt during the four months of chemotherapy was sharp and miserable. It came like clockwork the day after each chemo treatment and lasted about a week. My bones and muscles would ache to the point where even a gentle hug hurt. I cursed the brick-paved roads that rattled my body with every car ride.
Today, she smiles and her closest friends, including weekend reporter Charnel Wright of News 96.5 credit her strength for beating back the disease.
"It has you re-evaluate things a little bit. I just kind of threw myself into helping her: Taking her to doctor's appointments, taking care of her pet and making sure she was okay, as if she was my sister. She truly is my sister," said Wright, who struck up a lifelong friendship with Sanchez when both were part of the morning news show at WKMG.
Click here to see a TV report on her recovery.
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