An Orland Park woman says she wants to focus on helping other the way they helped her after a devastating diagnosis.

“I just didn’t feel like something was right, so I went to the emergency room,” Marie Fuesel recalled.

Fuesel was diagnosed with leukemia, but after receiving nearly 100 transfusions she can now say she is living as a survivor. There is nothing stopping her from loving the life she has now and spending it dedicated to helping others.

“So that’s when they told me, ‘You have leukemia. Blood cancer,'” Fuesel said. “It was, to be honest, it was like the Charlie Brown show when the doctor was talking. Everything was in slow motion and I could not even process the words coming out of her mouth.”

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