DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Each time she shares her story, Jessica Gilbert relives some of the most harrowing moments of her life.

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Ignorance isn't bliss, at least not for Mary Wikoff Moore.

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The stories are hauntingly similar — three moms lost theirs sons to brain cancer before they received their high school diplomas.