Here for six weeks for radiation at Duke Cancer Institute to treat her benign meningioma tumor, Leslie has kept her spirits up and created a community at Caring House with other guests who support each other through it all. The group of new friends cooked meals for the house together, had weekend movie theater and pedicure trips, played card and dice games in the evenings, and Leslie even brought two guests to her home in Thomasville, NC, to celebrate Easter weekend together.

Caring House is a place where love abounds. And not because of the house itself, but because of the guests that walk through our doors. “I think that’s one thing that’s so important – because you’re not alone here. Like I said, one meal in that dining room, you’ll make friends,” she said.