Open Mic: Joshua
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Stupid Cancer Board Member Joshua Rivera joined the Stories of Social Isolation Open Mic to reflect on his experience of solitude and social isolation during treatment.
Tag: Survivor
Open Mic: Shannon on Hair
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Stupid Cancer Board Member Shannon Wyant joined our Stories of Social Isolation Open Mic to share a story about her hair after treatment.
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
Open Mic: Robert
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: Robert shares a story about his feelings of isolation when diagnosed as a college student at our Stories of Social Isolation Storytelling Open Mic.
Open Mic: Matt
Reading Time: < 1 minute VIDEO: From our Stories of Social Isolation Storytelling Open Mic on May 7, Matt shares the story of his cancer journey.
Lopsided Life
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was 29 in 1994 and recently married. I had a small but successful decorative painting business. I was healthy, happy and excited about my future! When I wasn’t painting
We’re All In This Together
Reading Time: 3 minutesI was diagnosed with testicular cancer at 26, when I was finishing up my graduate degree. In my mid-twenties I would have expected a diagnosis of a broken bone or
Love & Breast Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesGetting breast cancer at 31 brought my world to a crashing halt and forced me to reevaluate my husband, my job, my life and what I wanted out of it.
Living With My Cancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s been a long time since I updated my blog. Since I last wrote, I was diagnosed with a disease that could be considered “deadly” and “scary” … CANCER. Since
Stronger Together
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 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,