"Cancer was the last thing on my list."

“Cancer was the last thing on my list,” says Katie Westhaver. She was a young woman when she was diagnosed with lymphoma. With a family history of heart failure and having lost several family members because of it, finding out that she had cancer was a shock. Her doctors told her that she was lucky. She got the “good cancer.” They were able to treat it but told Katie that it was unlikely that she would ever bear children.

Today, Katie is the proud mother of a beautiful two-year-old and will soon be graduating from the Cape Breton Business College to become a teacher’s assistant. One day while she was home she saw an advertisement for Bust a Move on television, and it sparked something inside of her.

‘This is something I can do,’ she thought.

Since that day, Katie has officially raised over $900 on her own – no small task in a rural community – and is busy recruiting friends to join her team and help in the fight against breast cancer.

In the near future, she’ll be holding an indoor yard sale, selling tickets on baskets and hosting a Kid’s Day in Cape Breton – where her boss, a puppeteer from New York will entertain the children after a day of face painting and crafts. She’s very active in the local sports community and is an avid volunteer.

So if you happen to be in Ingonish and see Katie’s smiling face, stop, say hello and give her a few dollars for Bust a Move. She’s working to improve breast health services in Nova Scotia and give back to the healthcare system that saved her life.