Lilian was entering her senior year in high school when she began to itch painfully. It became so severe that she was unable to sleep or wear her normal clothing. Six months of doctors’ appointments, emergency room visits, weight loss, relentless itching, and suffering later she was diagnosed with stage 2B Bulk Hodgkins Lymphoma. Her white blood cell count was over 25,000 and the football-sized mass in her chest had spread to her neck. She endured six months of intensive chemotherapy and two weeks of radiation the duration of her senior year. During that time, she graduated from her IB program and showed her horses. She has been cancer-free for six years, and is a member artist at D’Art Gallery, as well as an instructor to beginning hunter jumper riders. Lilian led the way for her younger brother, also a survivor. She is a proud horse and cat mom.
