Three years ago, Rachel Clark was an emotional and mental mess. Her mother had recently passed away after a long, hard battle against breast cancer, and Clark, who’d been with her every step of the way, had witnessed the devastating toll the disease can take.
“On the one-month anniversary of my mom’s passing, I woke up filled with such awful anxiety—it was the same feeling I’d had while she and I were sitting in the hospital waiting for results,” says Clark, who knew she had to do something positive.
“I felt if I could reach out and help one person, then I had to try, so I wrote to my mom’s oncologist and asked if I could bring an orchid and letter of encouragement to a cancer patient who could use a pick-me-up, and she said yes.”…