Mother & Daughter Beat Cancer | Video

Michelle San Miguel | 3/24/2012

Last March, a Mandan woman was diagnosed with breast cancer. Seven months later her mother was given the same grim news. Coni Couch and Roxi Polzin are now happily cancer free but have been left with mounting medical bills.

On Saturday afternoon, friends organized a benefit for them to help with their medical costs since neither has insurance. Couch is a proud breast cancer survivor but admits it took her a while to accept the news.

"It just never really hit me until the day I looked in the mirror, I got out of the shower and looked in the mirror and I was totally bald, I had lost all my hair and it`s like I don`t know why but that day it`s like you really have cancer. You really lived through this," she said.

Shortly after having the cancer removed, Couch discovered she had Lymphedema. She says the money raised at Saturday`s benefit will also cover the costs associated with that.

If you`d like to donate money, you can go to Dakota Community Bank and Trust. An account has been set up under Coni Couch and Roxi Polzin.

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