Woman ends cancer treatment to embark on final dream

Miranda Myers was 23-years-old when she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Since then, Bobbilynn Breland, Myers’ sister, has said goodbye twice — once when doctors didn’t expect her to make it out of surgery and again after an aggressive chemo regimen caused her to go septic, requiring doctors to place her in a medically induced coma.

Now, Breland’s going to say goodbye one more time.

But this time, it might be for good. Myers is ending her treatment. Doctors say she has about nine months to a year to live.

“She decided to stop the treatment,” Breland told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show.  “Now she just wants to live life life like she wanted to do … take a vacation and take her family to Disneyland and really live.”

Myers was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma on June 22, 2014. There are fewer than 1,000 cases of Ewing’s Sarcoma reported each year, according to Sarcoma Alliance, a nonprofit cancer group.

Breland said that the side effects of the treatments don’t allow for “enough living.”

“Yeah, they would give her life, but she’s not living,” Breland said.  “She doesn’t want something like that. She wants to be able to celebrate life.”

Before the cancer kills her, Breland said Myers wants to visit Disneyland. The only problem is buying the tickets to get there.

“Our family has never had a lot of money,” Breland said. “We’d like to get the word out as much as possible to help fund this.”

Breland’s family has started a GoFundMe page to help Myers attain her goal. They hope that they will be able to raise enough money to travel to the theme park as a family.

The family’s goal is to raise $15,000, according to KIRO 7. As of Monday morning, they had just over $3,000.

Breland told KIRO Radio before her sister was diagnosed with cancer, she enjoyed working with special needs children and being with her family.