Over the past 32 years, Miriam Cunningham has helped to raise “a lot” of children. The Round Lake resident has operated a day care in her home and had over 120 children since she began. “I have the second generation for some of them,” she said with a smile, as she’s providing day care for children of some of her early day care children.
Now, several of her day care clients, along with family and friends, are working together on a benefit for Miriam, who is battling endometrial cancer. She was diagnosed in April of this year. The benefit, a pulled pork sandwich meal and raffle, will be held on Saturday, September 29.
“I went to the doctor for a kidney stone,” Miriam explained. Surgery took place to remove it, and the doctors did a CT scan. “They found lesions in my organs,” she explained. With that finding, she was diagnosed with Stage IV endometrial cancer and began chemotherapy within a week.
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