Carla Peoples was used to a busy, glamorous life. As a society columnist in Galveston, Texas, she often slipped into sparkling ball gowns to cover galas and charity parties.
She rarely thought about her health, as she had always been “totally healthy.” But in the fall of 2022, her body began sending signals she couldn’t quite explain. Her stomach was growing larger, yet her clothes were slipping loose.
At first, doctors told her it was nothing more than a bladder issue. The truth, she would later learn in a moment that felt like the world stopped, was far more serious: ovarian cancer.
