Governor’s wife, Casey DeSantis, diagnosed with breast cancer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that his wife, Casey, is battling bosom cancer.

“I americium saddened to study that Florida’s esteemed First Lady and my beloved woman has been diagnosed with bosom cancer,” DeSantis said successful a connection released by his office. “As the parent of 3 young children, Casey is the centerpiece of our household and has made an interaction connected the lives of countless Floridians done her initiatives arsenic First Lady. As she faces the astir hard trial of her life, she volition person not lone person my unwavering enactment but the enactment of our full family, arsenic good arsenic the prayers and good wishes from Floridians crossed our state. Casey is simply a existent fighter, and she volition never, never, ne'er springiness up.”

Casey DeSantis, 41, is primitively from Ohio. In the aboriginal 2000s, she became a TV big astatine The Golf Channel, past a newsman and anchor for WJXT. She aboriginal hosted a speech amusement connected WTLV.

She met Ron DeSantis, past a Navy officer, connected the play people astatine Naval Station Mayport. They joined successful 2010.

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They present person 3 children nether property 5 -- the youngest becoming the archetypal babe calved successful Florida’s governor’s mansion successful much than 50 years.

The DeSantis household instantly received an outpouring of enactment connected societal media.

“The prayers of our full Senate household are with our fantastic First Lady Casey DeSantis, Governor DeSantis and their full household arsenic they look this superior wellness challenge,” Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, said connected Twitter.

Sen. Annette Taddeo, a Miami Democrat who has considered moving for politician adjacent year, tweeted: “All of Florida is rooting for you @FLCaseyDeSantis to bushed crab and for a speedy recovery. Our prayers are with the Governor, you and the full First Family.”

Since her hubby became governor, she has led initiatives issues specified arsenic mental-health and substance-abuse services and chairs the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet. She leads respective iniatives, including Hope Florida, Resiliency Florida, the Hope Ambassadors program and Character Education Standards.

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“I privation radical to cognize that I deliberation it goes backmost to this: When overmuch is given, overmuch is expected,” Casey DeSantis told News Service of Florida earlier this year. “And erstwhile I realized precise rapidly the interaction that I could have, hopefully, connected the authorities by conscionable bringing radical unneurotic to person a conversation, I thought, boy, there’s a batch we tin do. And you beryllium it to the radical of the authorities to beryllium capable to get retired successful immoderate capableness you tin to beryllium capable to bash good.”

News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

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