How my cat helped me conquer cancer

Shefali O'Hara
4 min readAug 15, 2019

About 16 years ago my husband and I left Denver, Colorado for a small Texas town.

We took with us our cat, Snoopy. People think that cats bond with places, not people. This was not true with ours.

She wasn’t a great traveler — she needed to be medicated while we drove to our new home. But it was clear once we arrived that she was glad we’d brought her.

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Shefali O'Hara

Cancer survivor, writer, engineer. BSEE from MIT, MSEE, and MA in history. Love nature, animals, books, art, and interesting discussions.