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Beating Blood Cancer Michelle Dokes Photography Beating Blood Cancer When Chicago native Nicole Bullock first noticed that she wasn’t feeling like her normal self in the summertime of 2016, she wasn’t initially fearful. She simply attributed it to the conventional wear and tear of being a wife and mother of three who was energetic in her community. However the symptoms weren’t just normal fatigue. It was extreme tiredness, along with weight reduction, night sweats and “a sensation that something was consistently stuck in my throat,” she tells ESSENCE. When she attempted to take a step back from some commitments and deal with herself, things only got worse. “The fatigue intensified and I started quickly losing a big amount of weight although I could now...