Defying the odds
In 2008, Ivelisse was a happy wife and mother of four with a deep faith when she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. She was 37 at the time, the exact same age her father had been when he was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer.
Because Ivelisse was deeply affected by her father’s two-year decline and ultimate death from the cancer when she was only 13, she and her sisters had vowed to be
