On Saturday, Deloris Fields and her son, Connor, reached a milestone — Connor’s first birthday and Fields’ 27th.
The day after Connor was born, doctors found that breast cancer from three years before had spread to bones throughout Fields’ body. Yet, she celebrates each day.
“I’m very blessed,” she says. “I’m very thankful. They didn’t think I would see Christmas (last year). I’m so blessed.”
She is filled with joy, but her birthday dinner wasn’t as joyous as it could be. Cancer treatments have badly damaged her teeth. In fact, just before Connor was born, the pain in one tooth was so bad, she had a dentist pull that tooth.
