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Ashley Monroe is battling cancer. The Pistol Annies singer revealed on Instagram that she’s about to begin chemotherapy to fight the disease. The singer reveals that after doing some routine lab work doctors discovered she was anemic, and then further tests showed she has “a rare kind of blood c word" called “waldenstrom macroglobulinemia,” which is “a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.” Ashley, who is married and has a son, Dalton, starts chemo today, and notes, “I’m thankful I have an illness that is VERY live with-able. I’m thankful there IS a treatment that actually works to fight what is causing harm to my body.” Finally she notes that she’s “THANKFUL for friends and family who have gathered around me praying and sending flowers and letting me lean on them during this super weird chapter of my life,” adding, “Thankful for my angel son. Who I am fighting for the most.”
Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn celebrated their 75thwedding anniversary earlier this month, and apparently they got a very special gift from Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. The country couple, who have volunteered for Carter’s Habitat For Humanity, attended the couple's anniversary party, but beforehand they gifted them with a red convertible built in 1946, the year the former first couple was married. The car was delivered to the Carters a few days before the party, but was hidden from them by Secret Service. They were said to be “excited” by the gift.
1946 convertible given to the Carter's by Garth and Trisha - credit Jill Stuckey