CancerCon 2024: Finding Your People
Reading Time: 2 minutesCancerCon Live 2024 – what an amazing experience! This past August I had the honor of being a scholarship recipient to attend CancerCon Live in Austin, TX. It was amazing.
Tag: Advanced disease
An Ultra Marathorner’s Story
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2018, my life took a dramatic turn when I discovered blood in my stool. What I initially dismissed as minor, soon revealed itself as a sign of something far
Humor, Friendship and Young Adults with Advanced Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy name is Megan Solberg, and I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the counseling psychology PhD program at the University of Denver. I currently live in Kansas City, Kansas
CancerCon 22
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy first in-person CancerCon experience went well. I was nervous thinking about the trip. I do not travel much but I thought, “Why not try it out?”. I am happy
From Cancer to Crowdfunding
Reading Time: 5 minutesAll my life, at least since early high school, I was deliberate in trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It started in ninth grade with weight lifting and wrestling, being
Frank Sinatra & My Vagina
Reading Time: 6 minutesMost people think they have a basic understanding of what radiation therapy is, but until you become a cancer patient, you don’t really know the half of it. The extent
My Journey with Colon Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen my doctor made me get a CT scan in September 2015, you could see a tumor throbbing in my abdomen. I was told that I most likely had colon
Story Of My Life
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen I was three years old, I was diagnosed with stage four alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. I remember sitting in that hospital bed — the second memory of my life. I remember
A Day I’ll Never Forget
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was July 1, 2020, during a global pandemic. I was anxiously sitting in the doctor’s office with my husband waiting for the oncologist to come in, confirm, and provide
Life Changing Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn January 2020, I was diagnosed with lung cancer, and started chemotherapy and radiation therapy for my spine metastasis. It was shocking that a simple back pain could manifest into