Where Are the Superpowers?
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt all started in January of 2020 when I decided I had to go into Urgent Care to get my groin pain checked out. I must’ve torn a muscle or
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Racing for a Cure
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the middle of 2019, I randomly decided to train for a half marathon. I registered for one on the spot, and after a few months of training, I completed
Story Of My Life
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen 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
It’s all over now… Or is it?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic melanoma in Feb of 2020, at 24 weeks pregnant, and recently turned 38. Well, let me back up a bit… I was on
Positivity Can Help Beat Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2017, my world was turned upside down when I was diagnosed with stage 3C dysgerminoma, a rare germ cell form of ovarian cancer, in my late 20s. This was
Command Disappointment
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe end of May 2021 marked my 3-year cancerversary. Is that even the day to memorialize? The day everything changed or the day of your last treatment — not sure
Let’s Get This Burger: 300 Days Without Food
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I hit day 300 without anything to eat or drink. At age 22, I was living in Hawaii with my military boyfriend and getting ready to move to
My Two Cancers
Reading Time: 2 minutesSorry, this won’t be a fun, inspirational movie story… but here we go anyway. My name is Selena and I’m 21 years old. Back in August 2016, after 8 years
Happy and Healthy Pediatric Survivor
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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 minutesIt’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