Palm Beach Illustrated

STORIES OF SURVIVAL

JORDAN MAZAR

Jordan and Craig Mazor’s “in sickness and in health” wedding vows were tested just four months after they were exchanged. Only 28 years old, Jordan had a lump in her left breast that a doctor had dismissed as dense tissue two years earlier.

She says it was “a complete shock” to learn she had Stage 3 invasive ductal carcinoma, which had spread to nearby lymph nodes. “Our world was turned upside down,” Jordan recalls. “My husband cried, which I’d never seen.”

Her mom, Lisa Racic, a nurse in Loxley, Alabama, flew to meet “the dream team” at Boca

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