Open Mic: Sam
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Sam shares her poetry at Digital CancerCon’s Storytelling Open Mic.
Stupid Cancer Story from the Staff: Linda
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s one of those things, you don’t “get it” until you get it. I was 19 when my dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma skin cancer, and I was
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Stupid Cancer Story from the Staff: Sadie
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I was seven years old, I was diagnosed with Hoshimoto’s Thyroiditis and Hypothyroidism. Since I can remember, my doctors were always monitoring me so closely. I went through the
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My “Live Funeral”
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I reflect on the scariest week of my life, my heart nearly explodes at the support I received from family and friends. There’s no chance I would have gotten
Kristen’s Stupid Cancer Story
Reading Time: 2 minutesImagine 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
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Stupid Cancer Story from the Board: Cycle of Lives
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy 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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Living and Loving Life with Incurable Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn 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
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What’s a Bile Duct?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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
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Becky’s Stupid Cancer Story
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy 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
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Open Mic: Joshua
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.