Barbra Thompson of Dalton was 35 years old when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She beat that cancer, and then had to beat cancer four more times after that, including in 2004, when she had Stage 4 cancer and was told that she had only a 30 percent chance of survival. She’s now been cancer free for 17 years, and she’s been making it her mission to try to inspire people and give hope to other people battling cancer.
JEFF FIELDER Editor
DALTON – Early in the spring of 1996, Barbra Thompson of Dalton started feeling a little fatigued and nauseous, and she even had some vaginal bleeding.
Those symptoms lasted for weeks, but Thompson, who was 35 years old at the time, shrugged them off, figuring they probably weren’t too serious. She continued to work at the salon she owned, Highway to Hair, in Dalton.
“I was young and naive, and I still felt fine,” she said. “I thought if it was really serious, I would be bed ridden or in a hospital. But I felt good enough to go to work, so I just went on with my life.”
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