(EDITOR’S NOTE: I had been very close friends of Patrice DeGregory Campbell and her husband Ali Campbell long before I moved to Freeport, Grand Bahama, to live in 2002. However, our friendships were indelibly cemented during the 12 years that I lived in Freeport before moving to Washington, D.C. in 2013. We had he same “circle of friends” in Grand Bahama and mostly socialized at the same establishments. So you will understand why the floodgate of a torrent of tears opened while reading this article about the current medical conditions that my favourite former Miss Bahamas and her daughter are currently battling. I was reluctant to share this article, but obviously Patrice and her amazing daughter Alia decided that it was okay to share their struggles with the public when they agreed to an interview for this article with the Nassau Guardian’s Shavaughn Moss that was published in the Guardian on July 31. I am a strong believer in the POWER OF PRAYER and I shall most certainly keep both Patrice and Alia in my prayers.)
NASSAU, Bahamas — On Sunday night, Dr. Alia Campbell was in a car wreck (no one was hurt thankfully) – yesterday morning she woke up happy and a friend questioned why she was already on “10” that early in the morning. Dr. Campbell’s response: “This car accident can’t even compete with what I’ve been through [these first seven months of 2019] and still going through with my mom.”
Campbell is a breast cancer survivor. Her mother Antoinette Patrice Campbell nee deGregory is battling stage four lung cancer.
Campbell was diagnosed with stage one malignant ductal carcinoma in December but she saw signs that suggested she may have had the disease from as early as October 2018. But her mom was sick and she was the mother to a toddler, Logan James Taylor – she said her focus was not on her, even though she noticed she had a retracted nipple.
In December, she felt a lump the size of a golf ball and knew she could no longer ignore the signs.
“As a person in the medical field, and you know what stuff is, you have to allow all the tests to run its course so you could know-know,” said the dentist. “I knew what it was when it came.” https://thenassauguardian.com/2019/07/30/living-her-best-life-fighting-for-her-family/?fbclid=IwAR1bnK2xcJARlEC5X0NhCp9HxHrLOdZJojh_t7PPjMGVNaA77LLNQxPkWAM
