At the age of 21, she was told she would probably die. Metastatic kidney cancer, dialysis, doctors who were at a loss. But Eslie van Riezen (31) from Assen decided otherwise. She fought, survived, and wrote down her story. In *My Scars, My Strength*, she looks back on a life that went off the rails when she was just five, but ultimately shaped her. ‘I thought: this isn't going to happen.’
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At the age of 21, she was told she would probably die. Metastatic kidney cancer, dialysis, doctors who were at a loss. But Eslie van Riezen (31) from Assen decided otherwise. She fought, survived, and wrote down her story. In *My Scars, My Strength*, she looks back on a life that went off the rails when she was just five, but ultimately shaped her. ‘I thought: this isn't going to happen.’