Soccer star kicked cancer's butt
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September 3, 2014
FAMILY HEALING – Life is getting back to normal for the Reinstra family after Ashlyn spent the last eight months beating down leukemia. Here she is shown with her mom, Jaime, her sister Addie and brother Erick on Saturday, right after she moved back home from her cancer battleground in Seattle. – Photo by Nicole Jennings
Ashlyn Reinstra was an athlete and busy college student about to celebrate her 19th birthday when the devastating news came: She had a rare and very aggressive form of leukemia.
Now back home and cancer-free, she is working to put her life back on track after her eight-month fight for survival.
Ashlyn said that she first noticed symptoms — headaches, fatigue, and inability to eat — around Christmas. It was when she took her then sixth-grade sister Addie to the doctor for strep throat and noticed that she herself answered yes to all the questions the doctor asked Addie that she real...
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