Married Couple Diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer in the Same Week: 'Not Done Seeing' Their 4 Children 'Grow,' Wife Says
Husband and wife Kevin and Wendy Wilson were both diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in the same week
The Millbrook, Ala., couple is "not done seeing" their four children "grow," Wendy said
The Wilsons will be sharing their 'journey' together on the TikTok account @ourcancerbattleKevin and Wendy Wilson have 'always carried the weight of life together,' a GoFundMe fundraiser for the couple reads.
The Millbrook, Ala., couple has been together for 21 years, married for 18 and share four children. But for a long time, Wendy was the only half of the pair undergoing treatment for cancer — until now.
The Alabama mom — who received her first cancer diagnosis in 2004 and underwent a double mastectomy in 2017, per GoFundMe — just learned that her breast cancer has recurred.
"I've had ovarian, cervical and breast cancer, and then, this time, with breast cancer,' Wendy told NBC affiliate WSFA. Her husband's recent diagnosis, meanwhile, is his first.
'He was told that he has stage 4 prostate cancer, and then, within a week later, I was told that my breast cancer had come back for a second time,' Wendy told WSFA.
Like Kevin, her cancer is also stage 4 this time around, 'because it had spread to other areas of my body,' Wendy added.
The couple are 'the kind of people who give without asking, who love without limits, and who never stop fighting for their family,' the GoFundMe says. And family is exactly what gives them strength, according to Wendy.
'To be honest, it's my kids,' she told WSFA. 'I'm not done seeing them grow.'
'I'm not done seeing them graduate high school, or continue the legacy of us,' she continued. 'So, that's my strength: showing them that no matter what you're faced with, you have to meet it head on and do the best you can, and if you can't you're going to go down fighting.'
The Wilsons' youngest child, daughter Savannah, told WSFA that her parents 'need everything that they can get right now,' and urged people not to take time with the people they love for granted.
"Anything can turn bad quickly,' Savannah said, adding that 'no matter what you have going on, always check on your family and your loved ones.'
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As they receive treatment, Wendy and Kevin 'are both still working,' according to the GoFundMe. They are 'still showing up' and 'still trying to keep their lives steady while the ground beneath them keeps shifting," the fundraiser states.
They will also be sharing their 'journey' together on the TikTok account @ourcancerbattle.
'We are doing a little video diary type thing for our family and anybody to bring awareness and let everybody know how we're doing along the way,' Wendy said in the first TikTok.
'Cancer sucks,' she concluded. 'If you ever come to Millbrook, Alabama, don't drink the Kool-Aid, 'cause there's gotta be something in the water.'
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