🎗️💔 AT JUST 22, SHE’S PUTTING HER MASTER’S DREAM ON HOLD TO FIGHT BREAST CANCER 🩷🙏

At 22 years old, Madison Almarez should have been preparing for the next chapter of her education.

Instead, she is preparing for chemotherapy.

The San Antonio, Texas, woman had worked hard toward starting a master’s program and building the future she had envisioned. But weeks ago, that future suddenly became uncertain when Madison received a diagnosis no young woman expects to hear: breast cancer. 💔

Madison has been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma. According to her family, doctors have determined that the cancer is stage 2 and triple-positive.

As she awaits the treatment ahead, Madison has turned to an online breast cancer support community to ask questions that many people facing their first chemotherapy treatment may have.

When she first introduced herself to the group, she explained that cancer had been found in her lymph nodes and that she was still waiting for additional imaging and staging information.

She openly admitted:

“I’m feeling very scared.”

Now, as chemotherapy approaches, Madison is asking women who have already experienced treatment to share the things they wish they had known beforehand.

“What’s something you wish you knew or did before starting that the doctor never told you about?” she asked.

It’s a simple question, but it reveals how much uncertainty she is facing.

Madison wants to know what chemotherapy is really like from people who have experienced it themselves. She wants to know what helped them through the difficult days, what surprised them, and what they wish someone had explained before their first treatment.

She has even asked other women about hobbies they discovered during their cancer journeys — small activities that helped them maintain a sense of normalcy while dealing with treatment. 🩷

Perhaps the most heartbreaking part of Madison’s story is the contrast between where she expected to be and where she is now.

She should be thinking about graduate school, classes, ᴀssignments, and the career she hopes to build.

Instead, she is preparing for chemotherapy, surgery, and potentially additional treatment.

Her master’s program is being deferred for an entire year.

But that does not mean Madison has abandoned her dream.

It means she is putting her health first so she can hopefully return to that dream when she is ready.

Her education can wait. Her health cannot. 🎓💗

And now she is asking the breast cancer community to help prepare her for the road ahead.

For women who have experienced chemotherapy, her questions are an invitation to share the knowledge they wish they had received at the beginning of their own journeys.

What made treatment days easier?

What should a patient keep nearby?

What unexpected things should someone prepare for?

What hobbies, routines, or small comforts helped you get through?

Those answers could mean more to Madison than anyone realizes.

And for everyone else, there is another way to help: remind her that she is not facing this alone. 🙏🩷

A cancer diagnosis can make the future feel frightening and uncertain, especially at such a young age. But Madison’s decision to reach out, ask questions, and prepare herself shows tremendous strength.

Her master’s dream is still there.

Her future is still there.

For now, she is fighting to reach it. 🎗️💪

So tonight, let’s turn this into a community of support for Madison.

If you have gone through breast cancer or chemotherapy, share the advice you wish someone had given you before your first treatment.

And if you have never experienced it, leave Madison a prayer, a kind message, or a simple reminder that people are standing behind her. 🩷🙏

At 22, Madison has already had to face something incredibly difficult.

But she should also know this:

Her story is not over. Her dreams are not over. And she does not have to walk this road alone. 🩷🎗️