RICHMOND HILL – When Bailey Spurling was told she had her cancer, her first reaction wasn’t surprise or shock or dismay. “I said, ‘I don’t have time for this. I’m too busy of a person. I don’t have time for this,’” she recalled. “I didn’t want to accept it. I didn’t.” It took a couple of appointments for the cancer diagnosis to sink in with Spurling and what her life would be like for the next few years. “Now I realize this is an ongoing thing,” she said. “It never ends.” The wife, mother of two teenagers and busy hairdresser has chronicled her diagnosis and her journey to remission in “Surviving – The True Story.” She started the book after having a number of customers and friends tell her they had family members affected by breast cancer. “So I started sharing it with them and then I decided I felt my word was empowering enough to put it in a book,” Spurling said. “I don’t just talk about my breast cancer journey. I talk about my walk with God and how it helped get me to where I am.” Spurling received her diagnosis in 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. When her diagnosis came, she was told she was at stage 4. Because of the advanced nature of her cancer, she wasn’t given a list of options. She was told the treatment plans for her and what the doctors wanted to do. Spurling went through six weeks of chemotherapy, followed by surgeries and radiation treatment. The longtime hairdresser also lost all of her during this. “I lost a lot of my identity,” she said. But the…
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