Life and Death: Mother Copes With Disclosing her Illness

A mom. A dad. Two boys. And one girl. A picture-perfect Midwestern family vacations in Europe. They eat strange food in England, take typical tourist pictures at Stonehenge and climb the Eiffel Tower. To a bystander, the Chamernik family might look like characters in the average home movie except, perhaps, for the stark fact about the mother. Her name is Aimee Chamernik. She's 38 years old. And she's dying. She is dying and she is not fighting that fact. "I'm gonna beat this thing," she...Full Story