Survivorship
The stories and experiences are written by people after cancer treatments. These stories are written for those learning how to get back to work, college or just trying to be themselves again. Just getting past treatments isn’t enough, it is surviving and thriving that is key to being you again.
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I’m Tired of Talking About My Emotions!
Talking, thinking and writing about, burying, processing and shielding your feelings is kind of a pain in the ass. Feelings! Emotions! Who even wants them sometimes?
Read More...My Transplant Birthday
I’m sitting here crying at 8AM on a Wednesday morning, and I don’t even know why. Wait…I kinda do. Tomorrow’s my 8-yr transplant birthday. WOW! I should be so excited! Eight years is terrific!! Celebrate life! Do something big! Enjoy all the things!! Congratulations!!
Read More...You Have Cancer… Again.
“You have cancer … again.” You would think those words wouldn’t sting so badly the third time. As if you’d become numb to them or had grown a thick skin towards them or maybe the familiarity of those three words made them not so terrifying.
Read More...Embody Your Body
Cancer is not just life-changing; it can be body-altering as well. We lose body parts to surgery and our hair with chemo. We acquire scars, develop lymphedema, and experience weight fluctuations.
Read More...Guys: Let the Emotions Out
As a football player growing up, I was always taught to never show emotion on the field. Tired? Stand tall and take deep breaths. Opponent getting the best of you? Keep pushing, and get him back on the next play.
Read More...Men Have No Emotions
As a society, we’ve decided that men are not to show their feelings while women are painted as emotionally transparent. Cancer has shown me that I can’t afford to do that.
Read More...New Perspectives
We are all given one chance at life, but a select few are given two. I was very blessed to be one of those few…To me, life is a journey to discover who you are, what your purpose is and how can you serve others.
Read More...The Moments in Our Metamorphosis
Ah, my first day of being a cancer patient. While my shiny new diagnosis code was already sitting in my medical record, this was my first day at the specialty hospital. The one you hope to never find yourself in when you’re 25.
Read More...Live In The Moment
BE PRESENT. WHAT WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE TO DO: LIVE IN THE MOMENT. EMBRACE EVERY DAY BECAUSE TOMORROW IS NEVER PROMISED. I feel it’s safe to say that anyone who has been affected by cancer is constantly living in a state of “What if?”
Read More...Love and Cancer
I fell in love for the first time at 21 and it was that type of unreal type of love, the kind you only see in movies… love at first sight type of love. I had never experienced that before so when I say I fell hard I fell all the way.
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