The Day I Flew
Reading Time: 3 minutes July 15, 2020 Waking up in the morning and not knowing how I was going to feel has become common over the past 14 months. I have been receiving treatment
Tag: Healing
Open Mic: Moira
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Moira’s story from the AYA Cancer Awareness Week Open Mic night.
Open Mic: Gena
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Gena’s story from the AYA Cancer Awareness Week Open Mic night. This story is made possible by:
Open Mic: Shaemarie
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Shaemarie’s story from the AYA Cancer Awareness Week Open Mic night.
The Young Girl with an “Old Person Cancer”
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer a few short days before my 24th birthday in 2019. Being diagnosed with colorectal cancer in your 20s is an absolute nightmare. In
Why I’ve Decided to Thank Cancer
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Out of Darkness comes the light, out of troubles comes understanding”— Monali Monkad I’d like to thank Hodgkin’s Lymphoma for slowing me down, for teaching me what truly is important
Brittney’s Story for Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Reading Time: 4 minutes Thank you to our sponsor: When I got diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, I thought I was going to die. And very quickly because, you know, Stage 4 just
Finding True Joy
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ll never forget the day I was told three words that broke my heart: You have cancer. In that moment, everything seemed to slip away. The career that I was
Imagine
Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine that one day you are driving to a routine doctor checkup in your car, with the window down, long hair blowing, listening to the Rolling Stones’ Time is on
Tiny Heroes
Reading Time: 7 minutes Inspiration, simply put, means to have an unconscious burst of creativity; therefore, unconsciously, I was allowed the honor of creating amazing boys who thus gave me the creativity to find