She gifts hope to women battling cancer!

When Cathy Angel faced her darkest hours battling breast cancer during a painful divorce, she found solace through thoughtful cards and gifts from loved ones. Once in remission, she decided to pay that love forward and offer the same comfort to others who could use an angel of their own!

- Diane Nichols

Cathy Angel was going through a painful divorce and struggling with depression and insomnia, so she went to see her doctor. While there, Cathy mentioned she still had a lump in her right breast. After a mammogram a year earlier, she had been told it was a blocked milk duct. Sharing her concern, her doctor sent Cathy for another mammogram. An ultrasound and MRI followed, then a biopsy. Still, Cathy was unprepared when her doctor called and said, “You have two types of breast cancer…both very aggressive.”

Cathy was at work when she got the news. Driving home, tears streamed down her face. At another time, she would have called her husband for support. The reality that she was now alone hit her harder than ever. But the Lakeland, Florida, single mom knew she had to stay strong for her children’s sake. Brandon was 21, Leanna, 15, Kennedy, 7 and Kade was just 6.

Cathy sat them down and told them she was sick but stressed there was a treatment and that she would be fine. In front of them, she was always positive. But she found herself crying in private, more scared than she’d ever been. How will I get through this? she wondered.

Turned out, she was surrounded by her very own army of angels.