Callie’s Life Changing Bone Cancer
Reading Time: 4 minutes The night before I found out I had cancer, I fell and hit my head. I went to the doctor the next day and asked her if I was ok
Reading Time: 4 minutes The night before I found out I had cancer, I fell and hit my head. I went to the doctor the next day and asked her if I was ok
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
Reading Time: 5 minutes I was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma last year at the ripe old age of 26. After 5 years of unexplained weight loss, going back and forth to the
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
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
Reading Time: 2 minutes I felt her warm, soft hand grab mine and whisper “It’s Cancer”. Instantly I blurted out, “Am I going to lose my hair?”. I pulled my hand back, sat up
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Paola shares the story of her cancer journey at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic and leaves us with a great mantra “Being afraid doesn’t mean you’re not
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Caroline shares the significance of July 21 to her at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Erica shares how her diagnosis changed her life forever at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Sam shares her poetry at Digital CancerCon’s Storytelling Open Mic.