Open Mic: Aaron
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Aaron shares the story of his childhood diagnosis that led to a kidney transplant and how the “snack lady” helped him through it.
Tag: Gratitude
Open Mic: Jeff
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Jeff shares what it was like having a roommate in the hospital who was twice his age.
Open Mic: Sussan
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Sussan shares how she has passed what her survivorship taught her on to her friends and family.
Open Mic: Caroline
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Caroline tells us of the ripple effect that sharing your story has and the importance of it.
WHEN I THINK ABOUT YOU, I TOUCH MYSELF
Reading Time: 4 minutesThree 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
Callie’s Life Changing Bone Cancer
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe 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
Gratitude In Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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
“And that’s when I was handed the shit sandwich that is cancer”
Reading Time: 5 minutesI 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
The Day I Heard My Child Say “Mom Has Cancer.”
Reading Time: 4 minutesI 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
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.