By and photos by alex kormann Star Tribune

June 27, 2020 7:05am

Taylor Bustos rubbed her newly shaved head in the dimly lit basement of her temporary Rochester home as an intrepid thought seized her. This better freaking be the last time.

Two years ago, Bustos was happy. She was 20, recently married and had just found out she was pregnant with her first child. Taylor and her husband, Mark, 21, envisioned moving from Duluth to California and raising half a dozen kids. But those plans would have to wait.

Five months into her pregnancy, Bustos felt a lump on her neck. On Oct. 5, 2018, just a month after giving birth to her son, Solomon, she was diagnosed with nodular sclerosis classical Hodgkins lymphoma. Its the most common type of Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer that affects the bodys immune system.

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