Andrea Sweeting is grateful in this new year considering the medical crisis that she went through in the latter part of 2019. And while she’s not 100 percent, and her doctors have told her that she needs to take it easy, it’s almost impossible to tell that she’d had a stroke. “I’m really and truly grateful, because honestly  to know that I couldn’t walk and talk, and am able to do these things now  it’s truly a blessing to be into this new year. From where I’ve come from – knowing that I had a stroke, I know for a fact that I am truly grateful and blessed.” Sweeting, the Sister Sister (Breast) Cancer Support Group president, recently suffered a number of illnesses, which sent her life into a tailspin. She learnt she had congestive heart failure, that was followed by a bout with pneumonia, dehydration with a kidney infection and poor circulation, and then she suffered a stroke, which resulted in paralysis to the left side of her body.

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