Open Mic: Farran
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Farran shares a story that encourages us to be our own best advocate during our Holiday Storytelling Open Mic in November 2020.
Tag: Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
When College is Put On Pause
Reading Time: < 1 minute As a busy summer was coming to a close, I began experiencing a dry cough, arm swelling, shortness of breath, and a lump under my armpit. These symptoms led me
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: David
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: David plays us an original song about what it is like to be a cancer survivor.
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
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.
Kristen’s Stupid Cancer Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imagine having the absolute best and worst time of your life all in the same year. In January 2016 I took off to Barcelona, Spain and spent the spring semester
Open Mic: Kristen
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Kristen joined our Stories of Social Isolation Storytelling Open Mic to share another story about her experience of social isolation during coronavirus and the parallels to her cancer
Stronger Together
Reading Time: 2 minutes This time last year, I had finally returned home from my eleven-day stay in the hospital. Two of those days were in the ICU. The night before entering the ICU,
Open Mic: Kristen
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Kristen tells a story about a time she was interviewed on the news about her sex life post-cancer…and reads the comments.