Midwestern mom given fatal diagnosis last Mother’s Day. She’s still here

Midwestern mom given fatal diagnosis last Mother’s Day. She’s still here

On Mother’s Day last year, Michelle Wilcox was planning her funeral. This year, she and her husband will fly from Chicago to Dallas to meet a granddaughter she was told she might never see. The mother of four is alive more than a year after being diagnosed with leptomeningeal disease, a rare and aggressive cancer that spreads to the lining of the brain and spinal cord and is often fatal within weeks. “When someone tells you you have a month to l…