MOLINE, Ill. — A Rock Island nonprofit is raising awareness of ovarian cancer with some smashing success.
On Wednesday, May 8, the NormaLeah Ovarian Cancer Initiative hosted a survivors club event at Patty's Pummel Palace in Moline. While there, attendees were able to take a bat to bottles, plates and more as they smashed their stresses away and built bonds with other survivors.
"We recognize how important life is and how we shouldn't take it for granted, so that's why I'm doing all these things, to make these memories because you never know. Ovarian cancer has such a high recurrence rate, so I'm just lucky that I haven't had another recurrence," survivor Michelle Morrison said.
In 2021, there were an estimated 238,000 women living with ovarian cancer in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute.