It was on a Sunday night when Elizabeth received the notification on her phone that her CAT scan results had arrived. She remembers sitting by herself, trying to make sense of the words on the screen. “I saw terms like  “spiculated mass” and “no cavitation”, and in each Google search of those terms, I was seeing the word cancer,” she explains. “And then everything moved very quickly.”

When we heard that someone was planning a “Rib Sauce Fundraiser” in support of the Walker Family Cancer Centre, it was a first. The fundraising event, hosted by one of Welland’s favourite spots, M.T. Bellies, was put on in memory of the late Ron Levinski – a loving family man, a good friend to so many and, of course, a Master Sauce Maker.

When Welland resident Deborah awoke one morning, it felt like the room was swimming and she couldn’t find her place in it. “It was a strange, disorienting feeling and disconcerting because I didn’t know what was happening,” Deborah called 911 and was rushed to the Welland hospital.