On April 4, 2018, Edward Wright writes on HometownLife.com,
Anita Cochran’s life has mirrored a soulful, chart-topping country music song since the Monday in August of last year when a doctor delivered the jolting news that she had breast cancer.
It started with a heart-tugging verse in which the prolific 51-year-old guitar-playing singer-songwriter from South Lyon was forced to face her mortality.
That was followed by a courage-coated acceptance melody, during which the thriving Nashville artist made the steely decision to not only fight the beast that had invaded her once-idyllic life, but to become a warrior/advocate for the millions of women who are stricken each month by the same unforgiving disease.
And while her uplifting tune has yet to hit its crescendo, Cochran’s spirit and inner strength are stronger than ever, she confirms, even while the physical torture of the chemotherapy and surgery she’s endured the past seven months never takes a minute off, let alone a day.
“Ask anyone who knows me well and they’ll tell you that I was never the kind of person who could sit around doing nothing for very long,” Cochran said in a strong, vibrant voice from her Franklin, Tenn., home Monday morning. “But this disease has definitely slowed me down, at least physically.
“One of the first things my doctor told me was that I was about to enter a marathon, not a sprint, when it came to fighting breast cancer. Boy, is that ever true.”
LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE: South Lyon singer/songwriter inspires others during bout with cancer