I have tried to build a career defined by clarity and purpose. I was able to turn a
diagnosis into a patented invention, and solution to help breast cancer patients
worldwide. My creation became a patented garment designed to protect chest
surgery patients from water while showering, during post-surgical recovery.

I began my career in journalism, where accuracy and trust were essential. I have
worked as a health and medical reporter and anchor for a range of respected media
outlets, including Central Florida News 13 in Orlando, America’s Health Network,
now part of Discovery Health, PBS, WKMG Local 6, CNTV, NADA TV, and the
Travel Channel. In these roles, I have covered complex topics for wide audiences,
translating both medical and business information into language that viewers could
understand and rely on. My reporting experience placed me at the intersection of
healthcare, public education, and human impact, a perspective that would later
shape my work as an inventor.

Through this journey, I have lived a life shaped by storytelling, problem solving,
and a deep understanding of how a thoughtful post-surgery design could restore

dignity for patients during vulnerable moments. Through this history, I was able to
bring the discipline of medical journalism into the world of medical innovation for
patients worldwide.

This skillset became invaluable after I underwent a bi-lateral mastectomy. During
recovery, I faced a challenge that many patients encounter, but few discuss openly.
Surgical drains, essential for healing from the surgical trauma, were difficult to
manage during everyday activities such as showering. Existing options were
uncomfortable, impractical, or nonexistent. Drawing on my instinct to observe
problems closely and search for workable solutions, I began designing a garment
that could protect surgical drains and post-surgery sites from water exposure while
allowing patients to shower safely and independently.

The result was The SHOWER SHIRT™, a water-resistant garment created
specifically for post-surgical care, for chest surgery patients. Designed to be easy
to use and comfortable to wear, it addressed a real and often overlooked need for
recovery. I secured a U.S. Patent, No. 8,516,613 for the garment’s design and
method of use, formalizing my transition from journalist to inventor. The product
was later classified by the Food and Drug Administration as a Class I Medical
Device, reflecting its role as a minimal risk but highly practical healthcare solution.
Today, The SHOWER SHIRT™ is available through a range of retail and medical
supply platforms, reaching patients and caregivers around the world.

As one chapter of my life has continued to evolve, another chapter has opened,
Beautifully Unbroken, A Life-Changing Invention Born of Loss, Cancer,
Courage, and Faith, was born.

This story is shaped by loss, illness, and an unflinching honesty about what it
means to endure. As a cancer survivor and the ‘soon to be’ author of Beautifully
Unbroken, I do not present faith as something tidy or reassuring. Instead, it is my
experience which reveals faith as something lived moment by moment, often
uncertainty, often without answers.

In those years of vulnerability, faith did not look like certainty or peace. It looked
like getting out of bed on days when my body felt unfamiliar, and the future felt
abstract. It looked like sitting in waiting rooms, hearing my name called, and
walking forward, even when every instinct urged me to stay still.

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There were days when prayer felt less like conversation and more like presence.
No answers were requested. No explanations demanded. It became a quiet decision
to remain, even while turning away from despair. There was grief in knowing life
would one day end yet surrendering it to a deadly disease was never part of my
thinking. In circumstances like these, faith becomes less about belief and more
about endurance.

Grief complicated everything. My mother’s loss carried questions that would never
be resolved and conversations that would never happen. Cancer, infections, and
complications added another layer of loss, of innocence, of assumed time, of trust
in a predictable body. Faith did not erase these losses. It made space for them.

In Beautifully Unbroken, I allow faith to exist alongside anger, exhaustion, and
doubt. I do not rush myself toward meaning. Instead, I let the story unfold slowly,
in real time, the way healing truly does. The simple act of noticing, of recognizing
a problem in patient care and imagining something better for future patients,
became a form of faith itself. Paying attention became an act of hope, even when
hope felt fragile.

The SHOWER SHIRT™ was not born from confidence. It emerged from
discomfort that refused to be ignored. At first, the idea felt small, yet it lingered in
the chaos of my thoughts because it mattered. Faith showed up in that persistence,
in the willingness to try, to believe that something good could still emerge even
when the outcome felt uncertain and difficult to reach.

What unfolds is a quieter theology of resilience, one that does not demand strength
or forced positivity, but honesty. My journey speaks powerfully through its
vulnerability. It shows that faith can coexist with unanswered questions and that
sometimes the most faithful act is remaining open to pain, possibility, and
transformation during the hardest days.

Being unbroken does not promise clarity on the other side of loss. Instead, it offers
something more realistic and sustaining, permission to move forward without
having everything resolved. It invites trust that meaning can be shaped in
fragments, that purpose can emerge gradually, and that even when nothing feels
certain, staying present can still lead to something true.

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My story is an example of how professional experience, personal resilience, and
thoughtful design can converge to create meaningful change. From the newsroom
to the patent office, and from breast cancer functions to international innovation
forums, my path has been guided by a journalist’s eye for detail with an
understanding that faith, love, loyalty, perseverance and resilience are needed to
push ideas forward, but only after once you listen, observe, and decide that a better
solution must exist.