Marci Schankweiler started For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation in Plymouth Meeting to give more young families a break from cancer.
Looking at a picture of her late husband Pete, Marci Schankweiler was transported to a time 22 years ago when he was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 29.She recalls that toward the end of Pete's life, the couple's friends held a fundraiser and sent them on a trip to the Caribbean.
"Our time away helped us really focus on our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being on the rest of the journey," she said.in Plymouth Meeting to give more young families a break from cancer."You're in the midst of this war and it's just -- do it to it get it done," said Nicole Whalen, a breast cancer survivor.
When Whalen was fighting the disease in 2021, she didn't realize how badly she and her family needed to get away.For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation sent the Whalens to Woodloch Resort in the Poconos."It was just the most amazing gift that we had been given. We were able to, for the first time, after a year of appointments and surgeries and treatments, just be a family together," she said."That is really the meaning of giving," Schankweiler said.
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