Zoe Plastiras and Joe Bird got engaged at Plastiras' surprise cancer remission party. 'Some family and friends knew, but he shocked pretty much everyone there including me,' the bride-to-be tells PEOPLE.
Zoe Plastiras, who has been battling Lymphoma for the past two years, was told she was officially cancer-free in Octobershe was cancer-free
"My partner said he had a surprise for me and I had to dress up. I had suspicions of a surprise remission party… but no suspicion of getting engaged!" Plastiras exclusively tells PEOPLE. "Joe was doing a lovely speech to all our guests about my journey to remission and then he got down on one knee!"The bride-to-be was diagnosed with Primary Mediastinal Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma at the end of her pregnancy with her daughter, Ophelia, on Dec. 23, 2022.
"It was a cancer that had a 90% cure rate with first line therapy but unfortunately for me, I failed a lot of treatments," Plastiras says. "Finally in October 2024, after receiving my life saving treatment Car T Cell Therapy, I was declared remission 90 days later on Oct. 16. I will forever be grateful to that treatment. It got me into remission and was very easy on my body compared to my other treatments.
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