{"id":20711,"date":"2026-06-13T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=20711"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:35:18","slug":"my-prom-dress-sat-in-the-closet-while-i-faced-a-stage-3-diagnosis-what-my-date-did-at-prom-changed-my-life-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=20711","title":{"rendered":"My Prom Dress SAT in the Closet While I Faced a Stage 3 Diagnosis \u2013 What My Date Did at Prom Changed My Life Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The night before my chemo, I almost skipped prom out of fear of what cancer had taken from me\u2014my hair, my confidence, my future. Then Leo showed up at my door with a corsage, a shaved head, and quiet determination that I wasn\u2019t meant to face it alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">At the prom, I expected judgment. Instead, I found a town that stood up for me, turning pity into support and fear into hope. For the first time in weeks, I felt like I still belonged to something bigger than my illness.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment didn\u2019t get easier, but I wasn\u2019t carrying it alone. Between Leo\u2019s loyalty, my family\u2019s strength, and a community that refused to give up on me, I learned that survival isn\u2019t just medical\u2014it\u2019s also the people who choose to stay beside you in the darkest moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The night before my chemo, I almost skipped prom out of fear of what cancer had taken from me\u2014my hair, my confidence, my future. Then Leo showed up at my door with a corsage, a shaved head, and quiet determination that I wasn\u2019t meant to face it alone. At the prom, I expected judgment. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20713,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions\/20713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}