By Cynthia Hubert
McClatchy Newspapers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hours after a needle fed another round of toxic chemotherapy into her veins, Sandra Knott wondered aloud whether she would survive to don the crisp uniform of a state corrections officer again.
“I can’t die before I win this,” she said on a recent afternoon, her face pale, her head covered by a polka dotted scarf.
For the past two years, Knott has been fighting parallel battles: metastatic cancer, and her supervisors at New Folsom prison, where she has been a corrections officer for 25 years.
The medical fight continues. But it looks as though Knott has succeeded in her effort to keep her job even as she fights Stage 4 breast cancer.
Full story: California corrections officer battles cancer and fights for her job