Former Fort Worth City Council member Gyna Bivens said she’s leaning on “strong faith in God” and support from her community to see her through a battle against cancer.
Bivens, who long represented east Fort Worth, announced she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in the pancreas in a statement shared to social media in late October. She is undergoing evaluation as an inpatient at William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital at UT Southwestern in Dallas.
“I am facing another health battle. It is certainly not the first I’ve had,” Bivens said Nov. 3. “I have strong faith in God. I’ve seen him work and bring me through several battles deemed impossible in the past, and I’ll be leaning on that place for him to see me through this.”…