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Reyes working amid her cancer fight: Senator balances chemo with Zoom meetings, phone calls before return
It wasn’t how Eloise Gómez Reyes envisioned her swearing-in.
Yet there she was in a hospital room in December 2024, wrapped in her mother’s shawl to cloak her medical gown as she took the oath of office to officially become a state senator.
A Democrat who represented the Inland Empire as an Assembly member for eight years, Reyes, 69, was diagnosed with cancer around the time she won a four-year Senate term last November.
Her swearing-in kicked off not only her first term in a new role, but months of balancing medical treatments with her body’s need to recover and her work on behalf of roughly 1 million people in Rialto, San Bernardino and parts of Fontana, Grand Terrace, Highland, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands and Upland.