“Or she would run slower and run with them and encourage them.” “She was the person who if someone else was struggling, she would go back out and help run them in,” Haven said. That’s what she did while she was here: strengthen others through running. There are things that happen and I know, you know, I know that she’s still there giving the rest of us strength.” “That’s been really tough… She’d be putting a positive spin on everything,” Haven said. Haven knew her husband had fought hard his whole life but she expected her daughter to be there as her cheerleader when he passed. “I mean, I went from a household, with my husband and actually with my 93-year-old mother and (Alicia) was here a lot, to an empty household.” “I don’t even know if I can describe it as a pain as much as emptiness,” Haven said. Just three months after his daughter’s sudden death, he too died from complications caused by FAP. (She) lost a lot of weight from just the surgery and the chemo.”Īlicia was a champion for Chuck, her dad, Haven’s husband and the person she inherited the disease from. “She did six to nine months of chemo, which was very debilitating. “At age 24, she found out that it was colon cancer, had to have the whole colon removed,” Haven said. If left untreated, the polyps turn cancerous and deadly. It’s an inherited genetic disease that causes polyps to grow in the large intestines and colon. “She was the baby of three children, so that’s been tough with her being the baby but, I don’t know, she was, she was just a beacon, a shining light, a cheerleader.”Īt 24, Alicia Haven was diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis, or FAP. “She was just outgoing and sparkled,” Haven described her daughter. Haven’s daughter was a 10-year cancer survivor and an avid athlete. “And we got a call in the middle of the night that she went into sudden cardiac arrest and we lost her.” But there’s always a risk,” Haven continued of her daughter’s pancreatitis battle. “Other than being in a lot of pain, we weren’t expecting anything to be terribly wrong.
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