The 13-year-old girl Anna Grace is a volleyball manager a basketball manager, and a theater volunteer, but perhaps her greatest1 is the fact that she has beaten cancer twice.
Anna was first diagnosed（诊断）with a rare type of2 in December of 2019. A softball player at the time, she told her parents she was experiencing muscle 3 in her left arm, only lifting it about eye-level. She had to4 surgery on her left arm.
For the following weekends after the surgery, doctors scanned her5 to make sure she was cancer-free and then in August of 2023, doctors6 a spot on her lungs. She had another7 on September to remove it. Anna said later the first time with cancer, it felt like a learning stage. The second time around, it was a little 8 to accept the news.
And throughout all of this, Anna has had to9 school work and hospital life. Her sufferings with cancer forced her to really10 herself because she was out of school for quite a while. Now she has11 and has straight As. Anna's father, Eric Bartel, said her journey has inspired him to 12 every moment, enjoying time with his loving daughter.
Anna is doing well these days though. She's13 in theater and is a coach's assistant. "When you're on14 you have to keep fighting, "Anna said. "Always live life to the fullest each day. You're loved. Your life 15 ."
