Panama residents Cassie and Audi Smith flank their four children.
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Panama resident Cassie Smith has been battling Stage 4 renal cancer since October. To help lift her spirits, friends decorated the outside of her home and surprised her with gifts and donations from local businesses upon her return from her first treatment in Buffalo.
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Pain.
This year has seen a lot of it in a variety of forms — but it’s appeared in Cassie Smith’s life almost daily since October.
“Originally, the doctors told me I had a fractured sacrum,” she said of a mysterious ailment that appeared in the fall. “I went on bed-rest for six-to-eight weeks.”