BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — In light of breast cancer awareness month, a unique clothing shop hosted an appreciation to give gratitude to those who have been affected by breast cancer.

Tomorrow’s Woman and The Perfect Fit helps people affected by breast cancer by giving them specially sized bras after mastectomies.

They’re on the second floor of Med Center Health’s Women’s Health Specialists building.

Nora Lacayo is a breast cancer survivor and came to the event. Lacayo moved from Nicaragua in 1978 to escape the communist revolution at the time and ended up in San Diego. 

She then moved across the state and eventually found herself in Kentucky, because of her son’s love of horses. 

She soon discovered she had breast cancer. 

“They called my two sons,” Lacayo said. “The doctor said ‘Nora, you have cancer.’ My youngest boy said ‘This is gonna be a mess.’ My other son didn’t say anything. He cried.”

“I had 21 lymph nodes taken out of my mastectomy,” Lacayo said. “It was a real strong change in my life. My whole priorities changed right there.” 

Lacayo’s fight with breast cancer was challenging; however, she knew she had to keep up an optimistic attitude to beat it.

“I knew I had to get up and keep going,” Lacayo said. “My doctors told me, ‘You still have to get up and go to work. Just rest when you get the chemo.’”

Eventually, she underwent surgery and ended up getting nine treatments of chemo and 34 treatments of radiation. 

Her doctor said she had Stage 3 cancer and only had a 38% chance of making it out alive. According to Lacayo, her doctor had called her a “miracle patient.” 

Because of her survival, Lacayo is hopeful for a cure.

“I hope and pray that all this money and research will find a cure soon enough,” Lacayo said.