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equestrian business while taking care
of an infant and a toddler.
In stepped Lyn Walsh and Beverly
Branch of Careity Foundation.
“They had insurance,” Walsh
said. “But their insurance wasn’t
agreeing to cover her surgery and
wanted her to see a physician a
couple of hundred miles away.”
Then there was the time factor.
She didn’t have a lot of time to spare.
That’s when Young called Walsh
and Branch and said that Stevens’s
cancer was very aggressive and,
“Could you step in and at least get
her first round of chemo taken care
of?”
“We took care of things while the
insurance company dilly-dallied,”
Walsh said. “That’s what often
happens with insurance companies.
To get in the car and drive 200 miles
each way to some Podunk town, to
a Podunk clinic with a small-town
doctor while we’ve got the best
doctors in the world right here would
have been insane. All this she’d be
doing while raising two babies. It was
not a viable option.”
Careity went beyond “stepping
in.” The organization jumped head-
first into the young mom’s case.
Steven’s son, Ryder, was just 2,
while her daughter, Violet, was just
5 months old when their mother
received her harrowing diagnosis.
Up until then, she said cancer was
the farthest thing from her mind.
“I was a young, new mother … I
have two babies to take care of! … It
was quite shocking, to say the least.”
She’d felt a lump in her breast a
few months prior to the diagnosis,
but associated it with breast feeding.
Plausible diagnosis, according to the
doctor, but not supported by the tests.
Fortunately for Stevens, in the
midst of great despair there have
been wonderful moments of light, of
positive news.
“I’ve just finished 16 rounds of
chemo in six months,” she said. “And
it was an excellent response. The
tumor shrunk to nothing.”
Stevens described Careity
as, “a blessing. They helped me
tremendously all along but espe-