Open Mic: Karla
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Karla shares how her second diagnosis has allowed her to open herself up to the resources available to her.
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Karla shares how her second diagnosis has allowed her to open herself up to the resources available to her.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Three days after I lost my dearest aunt to pancreatic cancer, I felt a small lump on the border of my armpit and right breast. Four months later, I was
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The last day of chemo is supposed to be a wonderful celebration of finally beating the crap out of cancer. But for me, this was my second “last day.” And
Reading Time: 3 minutes While I was in a groggy state, I heard, “No heavy lifting for at least 7 to 10 days,” as my surgeon was explaining the at-home instructions for me to
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Reading Time: 3 minutes In March 2019, I began feeling off…I didn’t know what it was. I thought perhaps it was the loss of a relationship that broke me to my core, or that
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Reading Time: 8 minutes I was a high school senior and basketball player that had won multiple championship rings, when my world completely changed in June 2014. My father noticed that my left thigh
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Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve deleted this post several times already. My stomach twisting and turning, trying to find the right words. Even though I have learned there is no right way to say
Reading Time: 3 minutes The summer after my first year of graduate school did not go as planned. I was thirty-eight, in an MFA program for creative writing and a graduate assistant for my
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Every year since 2014, I have run a marathon. I planned on continuing my streak in 2020. I had my race picked out, my new running shoes purchased. Little did
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I wanted to shield my family from the disease, but I soon found out that when it comes to kids, honesty is (almost) always the best policy. When you become
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