Cancer survivor celebrates Christmas miracle

December 22, 2013 at 7:54p.m.

COLUMBIANA

Roberta Blankenship is happy to have her Christmas tree decorated, but none of her three most-cherished gifts this year will be underneath.

That’s because one of them is a miracle, she will tell you. The others are her new apartment and several people she says helped her transition back into the community after a life-threatening illness.

“I attribute my recovery to prayer,” the 65-year-old retired nurse said, referring to finding herself in remission less than a year after having been diagnosed with a form of lymphoma cancer that also had taken her sister’s life.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.