The Olveras not only have the stress of the day-to-day grind, last year they also had to deal with Tami's diagnosis of breast cancer.

Since then, the 32-year-old Tami has lost her blond hair twice, has discovered that the cancer is now in her lungs and has recently been told by a doctor that she has just six months to live.

Tami, though, is a fighter--and so is the community she lives in.

During her battle with cancer, the Olveras have had their customers at Blvd. Coffee, 15466 Los Gatos Blvd., step up and show their moral and financial support.

Last July, Karol MacDonald, office manager at MacDonald Law Office upstairs from Blvd. Coffee, wanted to help Tami by setting up a fund for her. Friends and customers donated almost $8,000.

"We called the fund the Tami Olvera Medical Fund, because that's exactly what it was for," MacDonald said. "Everyone was really generous."

But because of numerous CAT scans, prescriptions and hospital visits, the fund is now depleted.

"It adds up every week getting injections, bone scans and MRIs," said customer Carrie Freiley, who has known the Olveras for eight years. Freiley, who considers Tami a sister, said the two just clicked the first time they met.

"She's just an incredible person. I feel lucky to have her in my life. She gives her whole heart in everything. If she can't give it 110 percent, she won't even mess with it," Freiley said.

Customers, however, don't just donate money--they also donate their time.

"Everybody wants to do anything and everything--making dinner, babysitting kids, cleaning the house weekly," Freiley said.

Two weeks ago, Freiley organized a landscaping project for the Olveras' backyard. It only took three days to collect the money needed.

"If we didn't have the community support, it would be a lot more lonely," Tami said.

When she first found out that she had cancer, Tami was shocked.

"I was the rock for the whole family. I was always the one taking care of everybody," Tami said. Now she's had to get used to others taking care of her. And while she enjoys the time she can spend with her two children, she misses working at the coffee shop.

"It was my social life. I worked here 40, 50 hours a week," she said. She's thankful to be part of such a caring coffee house community, and knows that if it hadn't been for the community, she wouldn't have made it this far.

Today, because of a customer, Tami Olvera heads to Stanford for a second opinion about the cancer that she hopes to beat. And Freiley is confident that Tami can win this battle.

"We'll make it work. Where there's a will there's a way. Somebody has to have the means to help us," Freiley said.

And even more confidently, she knows that the Blvd. Coffee community will be right there behind the Olveras.

"Without them, I don't think things would have gone as far as they have," Freiley said.

To donate to the Tami Olvera Medical Fund, stop by Blvd. Coffee at 15466 Los Gatos Blvd. or call 408.356.4665.