‼️ SHE IS SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO LOVE HER. BUT WHEN KANDICE MORENO SITS IN THE CHEMOTHERAPY CHAIR, SHE SAYS THE FIGHT CAN FEEL DEEPLY, PAINFULLY LONELY.

Kandice Moreno of Corpus Christi, Texas, is fighting non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Her daughter Haley says watching her mother battle cancer has been one of the hardest experiences of her life.

Kandice has gone from 149 pounds to less than 98 as she continues treatment.

To Haley, her mother is much more than a parent.

“She’s my mom, my person, my anchor,” Haley says.

And lately, Haley says it feels as though that anchor is slowly slipping away.

“Watching cancer slowly steal the life out of your best friend… is a pain that completely defies words,” she wrote. “I try so hard to be strong, but how are you supposed to watch the person who raised you fade away in front of your eyes?”

While Haley is experiencing the fear of potentially losing her mother, Kandice has been sharing what it feels like to live inside the fight itself.

She describes lying awake at 2 a.m., unable to quiet her thoughts and terrified about what chemotherapy might do to her body.

At one point during treatment, that fear became a frightening reality.

“They called the Code Blue and had to resuscitate me,” Kandice says.

She survived.

And despite everything her body had endured, she returned for additional chemotherapy.

But the physical effects of cancer and treatment aren’t the only burden she carries.

There is also the loneliness.

“This is really hard,” Kandice says. “And it’s really hard to do it when you feel like you’re doing it alone.”

Kandice knows she is loved.

She talks with her children and her husband. But her husband also has responsibilities caring for their special-needs son. Other relatives have jobs, children and their own obligations.

Cancer does not erase those responsibilities.

As a result, many appointments and treatments are ones Kandice has to face by herself.

And that can create a very particular kind of loneliness.

You can be deeply loved and still feel alone when you are the person sitting in the chemotherapy chair.

You are the one waiting for the next scan.

The next blood test.

The next treatment.

The next side effect.

And sometimes, you are the one lying awake in the middle of the night wondering what your illness—or the treatment intended to fight it—might take from you next.

For Haley, the fear has become even heavier.

Her grandfather died in February.

Now she is terrified that cancer could take her mother too.

“I am so mad at the world, so completely broken,” Haley wrote. “I’m so tired and I just don’t understand anything anymore.”

Her words reflect the helplessness many families experience when someone they love is seriously ill.

Haley cannot take the chemotherapy for her mother. She cannot carry every frightening appointment for her. She cannot promise what the next scan will show.

But she can stand beside her.

And now she is asking others to stand beside them too.

🙏 Please pray for Kandice as she continues her treatment.

Pray that chemotherapy works and that her body can tolerate it. Pray that she regains strength and weight. Pray for peace during the long nights when fear makes sleep impossible.

And pray for Haley, who is trying to remain strong for the woman she calls her anchor while privately wondering how much more cancer may take.

If you have faced cancer yourself, or supported someone through it, perhaps your words can help Kandice feel less alone.

Because while no one else can fight this battle inside her body, she should never have to feel invisible while fighting it. ❤️‍🩹🕊️