Who Are My Angels?
Reading Time: 5 minutes(Written August 25th, 2022.) This was the day I woke up from a colonoscopy to find out that my issue was not hemorrhoids like I went to the doctor for,
Tag: Survivor
Victor
Reading Time: < 1 minute Victor shares his story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic and how his mom was his biggest supporter through it all.
Madeleine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteContent Warming – Fertility Madeleine shares her story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic. She explains her story about her reflections about cancer, fertility, and life.
Callie
Reading Time: < 1 minute Listen to Callie as she tell’s her survivorship story at our November 2023 Digital Storytelling Open Mic and how findinig a community of those who “get it” can open
Cancer Takes A Village
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy name is Elena Del Carmen and I am a mesenchymal chondrosarcoma survivor. At the age of 25, in October 2020, between my son’s fourth birthday party and my daughter’s
Resilience and Courage
Reading Time: 3 minutesI am a childhood leukemia survivor, having been diagnosed at the age of 11. I’ve thankfully been cancer-free since 2007 but I currently suffer from a number of late effects
Now I Know My IBC
Reading Time: 6 minutesTrigger warning: Suicidal Ideation “I’m sorry but this looks like stage III, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC).” Those were the words that sprung out of my doctor’s lips that ordinary November
One In a Million
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt started with a small, hard bump under my hair. I found it when I was around eight years old. I showed my mom, who immediately took me to the
Every Moment
Reading Time: 2 minutesWow. My cancer story… I was the girl that was always just a bit sick growing up. I graduated in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, but that
Empathy to Expertise: My AYA Journey from Patient to Researcher
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn August 2017, my life took an unexpected turn when I was diagnosed with breast cancer during my final year of undergraduate studies. At the beginning of the summer, I