{"id":27151,"date":"2021-06-11T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=346543"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:14:53","slug":"best-friends-and-owners-of-a-specialty-cheese-shop-battle-breast-cancer-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/best-friends-and-owners-of-a-specialty-cheese-shop-battle-breast-cancer-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Friends and Owners of a Specialty Cheese Shop Battle Breast Cancer Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amy Burritt<\/a> and Cheri Intveld<\/a> started out as best friends, and they have been best friends for about 20 years. Then they decided to be business partners and opened a specialty cheese shop together. What they never expected, however, is that they\u2019d end up being cancer patients together too, and while they were only in their 30s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shortly into the friends\u2019 journey to open the Euphoric Cheese Shop<\/a> together, Amy discovered a lump in her breast during a self-exam. Cheri encouraged her to go get checked out, which she did. She underwent months of mammograms and biopsies before finally getting her breast cancer diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember crashing down on the phone, hearing the words from my doctor, and just feeling like, okay, I didn\u2019t expect this, but now there\u2019s this whole path ahead of me,\u201d says Amy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not long after Amy\u2019s diagnosis, Cheri went through almost the same thing. She, too, felt a lump while doing a self-exam, but she put off getting it checked out, in denial that it could be breast cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI just kept thinking, there\u2019s no way I could have breast cancer right after Amy had been diagnosed because it was within a year of her diagnosis,\u201d says Cheri.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When she finally did go get it checked out, however, she was diagnosed with stage 3A breast cancer<\/a>, a higher grade than her best friend had. She would need chemotherapy and radiation treatment, as well as surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve shared a lot of things, I never thought we would share a cancer diagnosis, but here we are,\u201d says Cheri.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Amy, Cheri\u2019s diagnosis has been harder than her own. \u201cI mean, when it was me, it was like, okay, this is my thing to get through,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen it\u2019s someone you love, I think it\u2019s harder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amy started a blog to document her experience and Cheri\u2019s. The pair also joined Breast Connect<\/a>, where they have a community of support behind them. \u201cSo many different survivors say it\u2019s a club you don\u2019t want to be a part of, but once you are in, it really is like a sisterhood,\u201d says Amy.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, of course, there\u2019s always the support from their customers at the cheese shop, which has only been open a few months but already has a loyal following. There\u2019s a box at the end of the cheese counter where customers can write messages of support to Cheri while she undergoes treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Amy and Cheri hope to be able to give back to the community that is giving so much to them. They\u2019re starting by encouraging people to do regular self-checks to help with the early detection of breast cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to try and love the community that I\u2019m in,\u201d says Cheri.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Euphoric Cheese Shop is located at 139 West End Ave. in Farragut, Tennessee. You can also visit their website at euphoriccheese.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out the video below to learn more about this unlikely but beautiful journey.<\/span><\/p>\n

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