Hollywood Popular Artists

Oct 14th 2013, 16:05, by Danica Davidson

Diem Brown often uses Twitter to communicate with cancer patients and survivors and give them support. It was through Twitter that Diem met an inspirational cancer fighter named Kelli, and she shared Kelli's story in a blog she wrote for People.

The two brave young women began communicating via Twitter in 2008 and recently Kelli asked Diem if she would come visit her at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. Diem met Kelli in person and also got to hang out with some of the other patients, who ranged from being under 2-years-old to 22. After setting the stage, Diem let Kelli tell her story in her own words.

Kelli was diagnosed with liposarcoma in 2008, while she was still in high school. "Being only the third patient at St. Jude to have been diagnosed with this, I embarked on the ultimate fight for my life," she wrote. "My treatments called for some of the most dangerous and strongest chemotherapy – putting my body to the brink of death."

She talks about her brutal chemo treatments, and how her cancer would keep coming back. She stayed strong, graduated high school, and continued to fight back at her cancer each time she was diagnosed again. "I don't view it [cancer] as a disease but as an opportunity to take advantage of knowledge and experience," she wrote. "Along the way, over the past four years, I found who I was: a vigorous person with a story to tell and lives to change."

Reading it, you'll see why Diem was so inspired that she had to share!

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