The Extraordinary Ordinary Anniversary
This afternoon, a baby bear rambled past my window. That’s just about the most exciting thing to happen to me today. Oh, and I wasn’t diagnosed with cancer for the 10th June 6th in a row. That’s pretty remarkable and yet not exactly a “cancerversary.” That comes in November when, if all goes well, I’ll […]
What’s on Your F-It List?
I started my F-it List while waiting to find out if I was in remission, or if I’d spend a month in the hospital having a bone marrow transplant.
I’m a Survivor. What?
I’m pretty much no longer concerned about my cancer coming back, now I’m worried about new ones popping up, courtesy of the very treatments that had saved my life eight years ago.
What the Kids Would Tell You
I was nervous to ask my teens what I did right and what I did wrong the summer (and fall) I had lymphoma when it came to parenting with cancer.
Soap Star Linsey Godfrey Pregnant and Cancer-Free
When Linsey Godfrey started feeling tired and cold last fall, she had a choice: take a pregnancy test or call her oncologist.
But What About My Cancer Awareness Month?
Go ahead and Think Pink. It would be nice, however, if sometimes you thought Red Instead.
Help Delete Blood Cancer with a Swab Party
A few weeks before the PET scan that would determine whether or not I was in remission from a deadly blood cancer, my brother asked me, “What happens if you’re not in remission?” “What were you thinking of getting me for my birthday?” I answered, and then explained that he was the number one candidate should […]
Overdue Permission from a Cancer Survivor
But sometimes we take this responsible sensibility too far, thinking that we’re being good people when really, we’re just stamping a giant DENIED on our psyches over and over and over again.
Widowed Fathers Find Hope and Help in Each Other
The group helps single fathers due to cancer cope with the loss of their wives or partners, meet the demands of parenthood, and manage their children’s grief.
