Living Out Loud: How Cancer Grounded Me and Helped Me Rise | Lisa’s Survivor Story “In January 2020, I was living in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the height of my aviation career. My wife was nine months pregnant with our first child. Then came the words that changed everything:
“In March 2022, a routine visit to my urologist turned into something far more serious. After an ultrasound, the doctor confirmed a “kidney mass.” What I thought would be an easy fix became a terrifying reality. When I Googled “kidney mass,” cancer was the first result – and that was my eventual diagnosis. I was scared and had no idea
In 2022 at the age of 46 I was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer. I was angry and I blamed myself. I was losing my faith. I felt lost and betrayed by my medical team. But then I realized that I have the fight of my life ahead of me and I was not going to allow this disease to win.
I was a 32 yr old who was in my prime (physically) of my life when cancer tried to pick on me. non-smoker, non-drinker, healthy active lifestyle, exercised regularly, and then suddenly, death sentence cancer diagnosis (gbm4). On my way home from work one day, I literally went limp from mid-torso down and fell like a wet noodle. After a
I was 66 years old when I was diagnosed with an almost stage four rare form of ovarian cancer.At my five year mark my Dr. told me she hadn’t thought I was going to survive considering my age, form of cancer and the stage I had. The one thing I kept going over in my mind was a picture of
This is not a survival story as such, I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer 4 yrs ago, then also Bladder cancer a year later…..on ADT therapy till the end of my existence…certainly has changed my outlook on life in general, I feel that trying to do silly things that make me happier more in the moment, I say
I was first diagnosed in January 2024. How I got diagnosed was odd because I really didn’t have any symptoms. It was an incidental finding. I simply contacted my primary physician for a refill on a hormone patch for menopause which I had been on. He indicated that since it had been over 6 months, I would need to go
