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Reading Time: 2 minutes I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma the first week of what was supposed to be my junior year of college back in 2017. From the beginning of the year, I …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma the first week of what was supposed to be my junior year of college back in 2017. From the beginning of the year, I …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imagine having the absolute best and worst time of your life all in the same year. In January 2016 I took off to Barcelona, Spain and spent the spring semester …
Reading Time: 3 minutes My sister June died a couple of months after her forty-sixth birthday. She left behind a husband and two kids who loved her as much as she could have wished, …
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Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 1st 2017, I was diagnosed with Neuroendocrine Cancer. I was 37 years old, a mother of two young boys, a college professor, and living a beautiful life. After …
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was diagnosed with a rare from of liver cancer on December 26th, after noticing the whites of my eyes were a hint of yellow. Cholangiocarcinoma is a cancer of …
Reading Time: 3 minutes My story begins in May of 2018, 3 months after my 35th Birthday. I went in for my yearly pap with my OBGYN of 10 years. My doctor called me …
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Stupid Cancer Board Member Joshua Rivera joined the Stories of Social Isolation Open Mic to reflect on his experience of solitude and social isolation during treatment.
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Stupid Cancer Board Member Shannon Wyant joined our Stories of Social Isolation Open Mic to share a story about her hair after treatment.
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Kristen joined our Stories of Social Isolation Storytelling Open Mic to share another story about her experience of social isolation during coronavirus and the parallels to her cancer …
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Robert shares a story about his feelings of isolation when diagnosed as a college student at our Stories of Social Isolation Storytelling Open Mic.