Marley Gibson

Cancer Survivor Helps Kids with Cancer

<p>In 1982, before the wave of social media support sites, I was a teenage cheerleader going through cancer. &nbsp;It was a lonely time. &nbsp;Hours spent in the hospital room alone wondering if anyone outside my family even cared about what I was going through. &nbsp;No fundraisers to help my family with hotel and travel expenses to my cancer treatment hospital. &nbsp;No Tweets or Facebook prayer circles to help out. &nbsp;No national media interested in the plight and determination of a young girl fighting to save her leg...her life. &nbsp;Just me and my family.</p> <p>Thirty years later, I am STILL cancer free and walk without a limp. &nbsp;And I need to pay it forward. &nbsp;I want to help other kids who are stuck in hospital beds wondering if anyone else cares about their struggles. &nbsp;I need to encourage them to stay positive, focused, and persevere. &nbsp;You can overcome anything...just like me! &nbsp;And that's why I'm starting the RADIATE FOUNDATION.</p> <p>===============================================</p> <p><span>Marley Gibson is a young adult, contemporary romance, and non-fiction author. Her YA books included her popular GHOST HUNTRESS series, RADIATE, a fictionalized version of the cancer she went through as a teenage cheerleader, and POSER, about a South Beach Miami model who prefers to shy away from the limelight. Gibson's Resisting Temptation series, includes the books CAN'T TOUCH THIS, CAN'T FIGHT THIS, and more to come. She co-wrote THE OTHER SIDE: A TEEN'S GUIDE TO GHOST HUNTING AND THE PARANORMAL with her husband, TruTV's and Travel Channel's, Patrick Burns. She also co-authored CHRISTMAS MIRACLES and THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS with New York Times bestselling author, Cecil Murphy. Boston is her home, but she and her husband travel non-stop in their RV motor home they loving call Midge, with their two rescue kitties, Madison and Boo.</span></p>

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