My survival story starts in mid-2018 while I was a caregiver for my mom who was battling metastatic lung cancer. I had some significant GI symptoms which I ignored assuming they were stress related. I did the same when I developed horrible right neck, shoulder, and arm pain. In early 2019, I finally broke down and talked to my primary

In 2017 when we started talking about what we were going to do in retirement, where we were going to live etc. I decided I would look into having a gastric sleeve. Fast forward to January 2018 I was on the operating room table for the surgery and the surgeon Dr. Peters flicked the camera up to look at my liver

I am now a 67-year-old retired industrial accountant living in Western Colorado. I am enormously grateful and blessed to announce that I am celebrating 10 years of survivorship this, the summer and fall of 2022. May 1st of 2012, I received that infamous diagnosis that I did indeed have Tonsillar Cancer and that it was the dreaded Stage IV metastatic kind

March 19th, 2021. I was drinking my morning coffee, just about to get ready for work when I got this sharp pain on my right side. It went up my side, to my arm, my shoulder, and my neck. It was so sharp I couldn’t catch my breath. I woke up my wife and told her I had to go

My name is Anna and I am a 9-year breast cancer survivor.  I was diagnosed with Stage I estrogen/progesterone and Her2 positive breast cancer when I was 36-years old.  I found a breast lump in the shower and thought it was probably nothing since there wasn’t a cancer history in my family.  After the biopsy confirmed my cancer diagnosis, my

After what I thought was my body not healing from an emergency c-section five months earlier, I went to my OB to see just what was going on. At first, I was pushed aside saying it was the way my body was healing and possible infection so was sent home on an antibiotic. That didn’t work and things were getting