Awaking to find herself in a place she didn’t know, machines blaring and people rushing in to see what is the matter. “You aren’t lucky to be alive, you are blessed,” the doctor told Nancee Beamer, 58 at the time, awaking from a year and a half long coma. “It was like awaking from a dream, like on a slide going faster and faster toward a big bright light.” Rare and cancerous tumors in the brain causing a seizure and eventual collapse at her home in Seattle, Washington. Four surgeries spanning over 12 years trying to remove the malignant growths has left her head scarred with trenches, soft spots, and divots. The cancer has metastasised throughout her body. “We all have challenges, welcome to life 101.” Nancee smiles and coughs, her lungs filled with fluid and tumors. Before being diagnosed herself, Nancee already knew the devastation of this devil known as cancer. Serving in the Peace Corps in South Africa, Nancee met Anselmo DeLibero , a Brazilian bodybuilder who was ...