Gratitude In Cancer
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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Beating Bone Cancer
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
“And that’s when I was handed the shit sandwich that is cancer”
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
Christy’s Stupid Cancer Story
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
The Day I Heard My Child Say “Mom Has Cancer.”
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
My Ovarian Cancer Story at 40 years old
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve always wanted to be a mom, but at age 40, I had unsuccessfully frozen only three eggs after two procedures. The paltry result led to surgery, for what was
Open Mic: Emma
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Emma shares the story of how her “sore throat” turned out to be much more at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic.
Open Mic: Rishina
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Rishina shares the story of her diagnosis and how she everything she experienced was to be considered “part and parcel” at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic
Open Mic: Caroline
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Caroline shares the significance of July 21 to her at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic
Open Mic: Savannah
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Savannah shares her cancer journey and how she wouldn’t change a thing at the Digital CancerCon Storytelling Open Mic.