On Sunday, all 10 craft breweries alongside Pleased Beer Road in Edmonton got here collectively to host a Shann-A-Palooza, promoting pints to help a beloved member of its neighborhood.
The occasion was named in honour of Shannon Grey, who was recognized in Might with a uncommon, aggressive type of Stage 3 breast most cancers: triple destructive invasive pleomorphic lobular carcinoma.
She was recognized after feeling ache whereas out for a run with buddies in April.
She started remedy a month in the past and if all goes nicely, expects it can proceed into late 2026. The plan contains six month of chemotherapy, adopted by surgical procedure (a single or double mastectomy, plus lymph node elimination.)
Restoration from the surgical procedure is anticipated to take eight to 12 weeks, and after that, Grey is anticipated to bear radiation therapies each weekday for 5 weeks, adopted by extra chemo and immunotherapy.
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Shannon Grey at her first chemotherapy session in Edmonton on July 9, 2025.
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It will likely be a protracted highway. Already, the chemo is taking a toll on Grey’s thoughts and physique.
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“I’m immunocompromised now, and I’ll simply proceed to be in a worse state,” mentioned Grey, who has labored because the taproom supervisor for Ale Architect because it opened two years in the past. She mentioned mind fog is interefering with doing the job correctly.
“It’s a rollercoaster. The whoooole vary of human feelings, day by day.”
Together with her most cancers therapies, she says it’s turning into tougher to work and her oncology group has suggested her to cease till after surgical procedure.
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A GoFundMe marketing campaign has been launched to lift cash to help Grey as she undergoes therapies, as she says her non-public medical health insurance advantages don’t cowl lengthy=time period incapacity so she’ll don’t have any help throughout her time away to cowl the prices of being a single renter.
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Nonetheless, her brewing neighborhood needed to do extra to lift cash for her hire, groceries and prescriptions.
“It was only a no-brainer,” mentioned Ben Rix, the co-owner of Bent Stick Brewing, of the Shann-A-Palooza occasion.
“It’s a particular one, however it didn’t take a lot of somebody suggesting it and everybody leaping on board.”
With extra therapies forward, Grey says she’s taking issues sooner or later at a time — and grateful for a neighborhood that’s displaying up, pint by pint.
“I really feel cherished and cared for and supported, it’s actually great as a result of on the identical time I form of really feel like I’m on an island,” she mentioned.
“Earlier than I assumed we had been all buddies — now I actually really feel like we’re all buddies.”
— With information from Karen Bartko, World Information
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