Bellingham woman fights cancer with help of her family
Molly Gardiner was on vacation in Hawaii with her husband in early 2013, when she started to get a bad stomach ache. The pain hadn't subsided by the time the couple got back to Bellingham days later, so Gardiner went to see a doctor.
For a time before the trip, Gardiner, 58, suffered from acid reflux, and she was tired a lot. When she returned, her nurse practitioner felt an ultrasound was necessary; the scans showed some abnormal-looking lymph nodes.