For a lot of people, knowing what to say or how to comfort a friend with cancer can be difficult. Sometimes, friends and family find themselves cut off from a loved one with cancer, inadvertently distancing themselves for fear of saying the wrong thing. Unfortunately, this happens all too often, and a loved one with […]
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Cancer awareness is important. Each type of cancer has a color assigned to it to help in the cause, supporting those facing a cancer diagnosis. Each color represents a different type of cancer, and these colors are often embodied in ribbons that people wear. But what do these colors mean? Why does breast cancer have
This year marks the 9-year anniversary of my winning the battle against cancer. I am proud to have fought so hard. As I reached the stepping off point of this Earth due to sepsis from treatment a great force pulled me back… the will to live is such a powerful thing. Although I am proud
My journey began back in 2018. I had been suffering from abdomen pain for a few years, accompanied by, what I thought was, muscle strain into my flank area. I did have a uterine fibroid and was told over and over, that being so close to menopause, this fibroid would just shrivel up and go
I was diagnosed at the age of 14 (now 30) with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. For a couple of days I was coughing up blood and did not tell my parents because I was scared. Eventually I started showing other signs and my mother took notice. She rushed me to the ER where they did blood
In April of 2016, it was just chance I think, I went to brush some crumbs off my shirt and how weird because I am sure I have done this numerous times before, but I felt a lump. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t just feeling things so I made my husband feel and
I am 66 and 5 years ago January 16, 2016 I had a routine colonoscopy and my world changed when I woke up and was told I had stage 3 colon cancer. My husband was and is my rock. I am living with neuropathy from the chemo treatments but I am a warrior/survivor, alive and
I’m 68 years old and in 2018 I was diagnosed with NHL stage 4 grade 2. I went thru the treatment and went on to the maintenance program in 2019. In Jan 2020 I went to the ER for a pain in my side and that’s when they discovered a tumor on my pancreas which
My story starts off fairly normal, actually. In 2018, at the age of 42 I had skipped a few gyno appointments over the years. My periods started to become extremely painful, often knocking me down 2-3 days at a time. I had also noticed weight gain and what felt like a “bubble” in the left
I am a 26 year old male. After several months of struggling with fevers, fatigue, and a growing pandemic – I was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin’s, and quickly started treatment. I immediately improved but still had to take on 6 months of chemotherapy in mostly isolation with my wonderful partner. After going through a
