If you had asked professional snowboarder Kimmy Fasani one year ago what she would be doing now, taking part in her first snowboarding competition in years—the Natural Selection Tour—wouldn’t have even made the list.
This time last year, Fasani was just three months removed from a diagnosis of aggressive stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer, for which she would receive 10 months of treatment—six rounds of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy and 30 rounds of radiation. The treatments made her sick, and Fasani wasn’t able to snowboard—something she’s been doing since she was nine and competitively since she was 15.
The diagnosis was one of several personal and family challenges Fasani has faced in recent years, all of which forced her to continually reevaluate her identity—professional snowboarder, advocate, real estate agent, author, mother, wife.
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