In April this year, Connie Johnson, 37, decided to stop all cancer treatment and chemotherapy.
After undergoing more than 10 years of treatment—including a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation—her body was finally telling her “no more.”
She was determined to spend “quality time” with her young family—including her sons, Willoughby and Hamilton—in her final few months.
Yesterday, she had her last “village hurrah” in front of 1,400 medical graduates, prompting her brother, actor Samuel Johnson, to post an emotional tribute to his younger sister as she nears the end of her journey.
“I had to wheel her offstage and into the wings, for the last time, and as soon as we were out of sight, we both buckled,” he wrote on the Love Your Sister Facebook page.
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What a hero she is... that her last travel isn't to a fine landscape or monument or work of art, but still in the spirit of service.
Just when you think Sam has reached peak awesomeness, he writes this and outdoes himself again. What a brother he is.