Dealing With Cancer Treatment And The Loss of Her Husband — Sylvia Weinstock Takes It All With a Grain of Salt

Sylvia Weinstock has some pretty incredible stories. As a cake designer to the stars, she had a very full — and at times, chaotic — career, but she handled it all with grace. Sylvia has been through cancer two times, and she still carries on with the most amazing, positive attitude. We could all learn a thing or two from her.

Sylvia gave up the cake business when her husband became seriously ill — and it became apparent that he didn’t have much longer to live. What’s more, while Sylvia was in the process of losing her husband, she was also facing a lung cancer diagnosis. “Recently, I had lung cancer,” Sylvia told SurvivorNet. “Non-smoker … but lung cancer. Whether that was due to being down at 9/11 … well, we’ll figure that one out … I went to Weill-Cornell, and then I said, ‘I have to leave, because my husband’s dying.’ So, I walked out on the second day with stitches, and I went home to be with my husband as he died, and then I went back to have the stitches removed, and to have the lung operation.”