A woman who dedicated the past 14 years of her life to fighting crime in Prince George's County, Maryland, has a new foe: breast cancer.
Sgt. Sonya Rorls still cries from time to time, but says she's lucky to have the support at work, including her lieutenant.
"I cried maybe the first five nights," she said. "I would call him one, two o'clock in the morning and just cry, 'Why me, why me?'"
"Obviously it was a shock," Lt. Charles Duelley said. "The hardest thing I think was when Sonya asked me to notify her squad."
"To see your fellow officers break down in tears, it was very emotional for me," Rorls said. That support at work has not only helped Rorls get through chemotherapy -- it's given her the courage to speak out about her illness.
"It's been a journey, and I know a lot of women are fighting this journey, but we're all in it together," she said. "It's hard but it can be done."
Last week, that journey took Rorls and other breast cancer survivors to New York and the set of NBC's "Today" show.
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"Watching other brave, beautiful women on the set, and it was such an experience for me," she said.
Rorls says kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month on national TV was great, but her moment with host Matt Lauer was special.
"Matt gave me this huge hug and this kiss on my cheek, and I just felt that he knew how I felt and he wanted to just embrace me and it was just wonderful," she said.
With the Today show behind her, Rorls is ready to get back to what she misses most.
"I miss getting that bad guy," she said. "Being in a room getting someone to confess to a crime, I miss that."
