In the month of October, Vera’s grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. As anybody would, Vera took this news to heart on a deep level. When Vera Giasi (Vera’s grandmother) was forty years old, she was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer in both breasts. Vera’s mother, Christine, told the Oracle that when she found out her mother had cancer, she wasn’t sure how it was going to end, or if it would end at all. Vera Giasi’s family did the only thing they could do: pray and hope that she would be strong enough to pull through. Over that period of treatment, Vera’s husband passed away of heart failure. Maybe it was the suffering she had endured already or a lucky break in the chemotherapy, but Vera went into remission. For the time being, everything
