In Case You Missed It
Remembering
a cancer
WARRIOR
27 year-old ends her fight, but leaves legacy to help others
Story by Cindy Aguirre-Herrera with courtesy photos
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he following is not your average October Breast Cancer Awareness story. Instead, it’s about one warrior who is speaking from the trenches as she not only fights for her life but the lives of our wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and aunts. Next month will mark one year since 27-year-old S’adi Gonzales first learned that she had Stage 3 Breast Cancer. After a successful treatment and a couple of months of breathing room, Gonzales found herself back in battle and is now diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer -- a cancer that has also spread to her bones and liver. Despite the roller coaster of a year, it was Gonzales who reached out to the Seguin Daily News. Gonzales says she felt it was important to share her journey so that hopefully, others would be able to navigate through their own should that day ever come. In fact, it was her experience at the very beginning of her diagnosis that prompted her to advocate for others. “I’ve always just checked my breast in the shower when showering so I was checking it and then there was a little lump and I was ‘oh, no!’ and then I said maybe I strained myself because I took my dog a bath so I was like maybe he jumped on me and hit my breast but then, I had noticed about two weeks later that that bump had started getting bigger and it started getting very painful. That’s when I realized I needed to see the doctor. It was hard for the doctor to confirm what I had because they kept pushing that it was an infection and they kept giving me antibiotics for about two months and within that two months, the original doctor was no longer helping me because they wanted to keep pushing antibiotics but at that point, I had refused and I ended up seeking a second opinion and I ended up seeking my second opinion which ended up being with my breast surgeon and she took one look at my breast and she was like ‘no, we have to get you a biopsy now!’ And so then they finally got me the biopsy and A Tribute to Community Impact
S’adi Nicole Gonzalez Reyes worked tirelessly to raise awareness for breast cancer throughout the community. Reyes passed away on March 23, 2022 after her long battle with cancer. As a tribute to her life and dedication to raising awareness we are re-running this story originally published in October 2021.
