I am proud to be here today as a four-time cancer survivor. My journey began when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease at the age of 18.  Then, twenty years later, in came breast cancer. Since then, I have fought this disease on three separate occasions. For me, unfortunately, cancer is something that has been […]

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 to

My thyroid numbers were all completely normal but I was always choking after I ate and my hair was seriously thinning. My friend said I should have it checked. I went to the Dr. and he felt something in my throat. He sent me for a sonogram. The sonographer circled several suspicious nodules. I was

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 away over

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 through 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