When I Finally Felt Free
Reading Time: 3 minutes I can remember the chill that ran down my spine. The tingle of antiseptic in my nose, and the throbbing burn running down my leg from surgical wounds. They had
Tag: Pediatric survivor
CancerCon 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes What a joy it was to be able to experience CancerCon. I won a Hotel Scholarship to experience it and I probably wouldn’t have been able to if not, at
Stupid Cancer is the Family We’ve Been Seeking for So Long
Reading Time: 4 minutes I will be completely honest in saying I was dreading going to CancerCon. The closer the dates got, the bigger the knot grew in my stomach. I spent a year
Raven’s Fight Against ALL
Reading Time: 4 minutes My name is Raven Curry and I am 21 years old. One thing that is not apparent but makes me stand out from others is that I am a childhood
Story Of My Life
Reading Time: 8 minutes When 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
Happy and Healthy Pediatric Survivor
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia right before my 10th birthday in 1997. I was aware of the severity of my disease, but also still had the innocence of
Empowered By Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s odd, isn’t it, when we are ‘released’ from the careful monitoring of the cancer ward, told our chemotherapy is over, and left to go and ‘enjoy our lives’ as
Open Mic: Rishina
Reading Time: < 1 minutes VIDEO: Rishina’s story from the AYA Cancer Awareness Week Open Mic night.
Open Mic: Gena
Reading Time: < 1 minutes VIDEO: Gena’s story from the AYA Cancer Awareness Week Open Mic night. This story is made possible by:
1st Day Shedding
Reading Time: 2 minutes I had only just started my first rounds of chemo. Things were still very new, not only to me, but to my family as well. For the sake of keeping