I Adopted a Little Girl and Then Cancer Showed Up

Heather Salazar was diagnosed in 2005 with breast cancer. After her diagnosis, she underwent surgery and received aggressive chemotherapy and immunotherapy. I sat down with Heather to discuss her 18-year cancer journey as she poured out her heart and shared her intersecting emotions of adopting a child, then being diagnosed with cancer soon after.

A career social worker, whose heart’s desire is to solve generational poverty, Heather provides amazing insights to a most serendipitous personal encounter with her adopted daughter’s birth mother, which helped shift the trajectory of her personal mission to help others.

Listen now to hear this amazing cancer survivor’s story of early disbelief to engaged deployment.