but when gloria borjes took on the fight of her life, she decided to have a little fun along the way.10th, 2010, i received news that no healthy 28-year-old expects to hear. >> gloria is a fierce opponent. calculated, competitive, unrelenting. >> i had joined a gym in the beginning of 2010, i had lost about 30 pounds of pat, put on about 10 pounds of muscle. so i thought my body was going through changes in general so the gi issues were tied to those changes. >> as the year progressed, gloria's symptoms got worse. but she toughed it out until one day she got fouled in a basketball game. >> she put both hands on my gut area and didn't slap me hard. it was just trying to kind of throw me off balance and the pain was excruciating. and i remember hobbling over to the free-throw line and realizing, there is something very serious here. >> gloria finally checked herself into the hospital, bloated and vomiting ferociously. an emergency operation uncovered a large tumor in her colon. >> my mom told me initially was, it is stage iv colon cancer and it is very aggressive. and i said, well, i'm