Kim Bunner said living with cancer for more than a decade has given her perspective.

The illness brought her closer to her husband, Matt, and showed her children, 15-year-old Haylee and 12-year-old Cameron, how to be considerate, Kim said.

“You hate to say that something that is so hard on a family is a blessing,” she said.
“We see what stress really is and what stress really isn’t.”

Kim was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, when Cameron was six months old.