There are few words in life that can leave you breathless. Most of the time we hear about people being left breathless the first time someone says “I love you” to them. Unfortunately for thousands of people each year, the word that leaves them breathless is cancer.

“I went in for a mammogram and they said 'oh we see something here',” said Terry Bacon. “When my doctor called to tell me... complete shock. I couldn't move. Nothing existed anymore but that word cancer. It's overwhelming. You forget to breathe and you don't know how to deal with it.”

The 68-year old Spokane great-grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2012. In the following months she underwent a lumpectomy and radiation treatment.

“I didn't have to go through the chemo. I can't imagine what it's like to go through chemo,” said Terry.

The cancer is now gone, but Terry is still healing and she knows her life changed instantly and forever when her doctor said that word, cancer.

After strong monthly job gains in Washington earlier this year, that momentum appears to have slowed.

Washington state's unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent last month, the lowest rate in more than four years.

According to the Associated Press, the state saw a decrease of 5,500 jobs from February. An estimated 254,000 people in Washington were unemployed and looking for work in March, including more than 136,000 who claimed unemployment benefits.

More than 3,100 unemployed workers ran out of unemployment benefits last month. A total of 135,236 people have exhausted their benefits since extended benefits were activated in July 2008.