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Patients
The stories and experiences in this category are written by people currently going through treatments for cancer. Read these stories to find inspiration and know that you are not alone in your experience with cancer.
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Fight for Your Life
Hello, the name’s James. At the age of 16, I wished to play football as a pro. Training and practicing for hours on a daily until one day, I went for a tackle and missed that to all of my weight compressed on my arm. It was unusual for such pain to occur. Visited the sports trainer and later got admitted to multiple hospitals.
Read More...Remission: A New Perspective
Remission. I cringe when I hear the word. I especially cringe when I’m asked, always in a high-pitched, much too enthusiastic tone, “So are you in remission now?” I know and understand why people ask. I also know that by asking in a gleeful way, it’s because they hope the answer will be a resounding “Yes!”
Read More...Reflection on Where I am Today with Thyroid Cancer
In July 2012, I was diagnosed with Metastatic Thyroid Cancer after being misdiagnosed for ten years. I was being seen by a Chief Endocrinologist named Doctor Shapiro who works in Mineola, New York. He refused to listen to me until I ended up blacking out in college and was taken to the hospital.
Read More...Cryotherapy for Recovery
I was diagnosed with breast cancer on April 16, 2019. I knew the only way I would do chemotherapy is if my sweet husband asked me to. I wanted to take a holistic approach to healing my cancer.
Read More...A Checklist for What to Wear for Treatments
A Checklist for What to Wear for Treatments. Here are some tips I have picked up along the way during my cancer journey going in and out of the hospital
Read More...Meditation and The Breath of Life
Picture yourself sitting or lying down in a most comfortable position. You are relaxed. Eyes open or closed, it doesn’t matter. Breathing naturally. Aware of the surrounding sounds and smells.
Read More...September 2020 Magazine: The Wellness and Mindfulness Issue
When we put together our editorial calendar at the end of 2019 for 2020, I never imagined how significantly important our decision was to make the September magazine the “wellness and mindfulness” issue.
Read More...One on One Support
We are excited to be able to partner with Imerman Angels as we continue to help people across the AYA cancer community know they are not alone in facing cancer by providing one to one support.
Read More...Cancer Fashion
Your clothing is probably the last thing on your mind when you receive those dreaded three words: “You have cancer.” There are so many other pressing matters. What stage am I? What’s the next course of treatment? Will my health insurance cover all of this? But we have to wear clothes everyday, so why not use them as a means of self care?
Read More...The Cure
The petite nurse, while thawing out the first bag, tells me that each pouch will take one minute to infuse. In three minutes I’ll be done. Three minutes and I’m supposedly cured. I lean back as the nurses start infusing the first bag of cells.
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