Ashley
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ashley shares a poem titled “Not Cancer” at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic. She tells her story of right before getting her diagnosis.
Callie
Reading Time: < 1 minute Listen to Callie as she tell’s her survivorship story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic and how findinig a community of those who “get it” can open
Cancer Takes A Village
Reading Time: 3 minutes My name is Elena Del Carmen and I am a mesenchymal chondrosarcoma survivor. At the age of 25, in October 2020, between my son’s fourth birthday party and my daughter’s
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Resilience and Courage
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am a childhood leukemia survivor, having been diagnosed at the age of 11. I’ve thankfully been cancer-free since 2007 but I currently suffer from a number of late effects
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Now I Know My IBC
Reading Time: 6 minutes Trigger warning: Suicidal Ideation “I’m sorry but this looks like stage III, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC).” Those were the words that sprung out of my doctor’s lips that ordinary November
A Board Member’s Story of CancerCon 2023
Reading Time: 7 minutes I kissed the wife and kids goodbye and headed to the airport. Next stop, CancerCon 2023. I got into the Omni Atlanta at about 11pm, checked in, thanked the staff
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My Journey: Battling Cancer and Raising Awareness
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am Amy Nichole, a passionate photographer with a specialization in pet portraits and landscape photography. My career takes me on a journey to capture the beauty of the world,
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One In a Million
Reading Time: 3 minutes It started with a small, hard bump under my hair. I found it when I was around eight years old. I showed my mom, who immediately took me to the
Every Moment
Reading Time: 2 minutes Wow. My cancer story… I was the girl that was always just a bit sick growing up. I graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, but that
Am I Struggling Enough?
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m scared to share, because I don’t struggle enough…but maybe there are others who feel like an imposter as well. Back in 2019, I was finishing up college, waiting tables,
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