The Closer to Free training season is underway. Three months from now, cyclists from around the state, the country and the world will ride hundreds of miles for.
She went through treatment from January to July of 2020.
“I got to learn my nurses names, I got to learn who they were dating, I got to learn more about their kids, we got to commiserate about their own struggles with the pandemic,” Cardoso said.
The care she received at Smilow is the same she’d seen before. Her brother Will was treated for non-Hodgkin s lymphoblastic T-cell lymphoma in 2012 when he was 27.
“I think we’re both very grateful that we’re here,” Cardoso said. “I think we’re both very grateful to Smilow and the science, the medication, the treatments, all of the things we’ve learned, the family that we’ve made at Smilow.”