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Believe In Your Journey
By Matt Reagan August 2020
I’ve known several people who have died from cancer, recovered from it, or lingered somewhere in between for what I can only describe as an embarrassingly long time. I’ve also been fighting cancer myself, with the help of all of my tireless heroes in the medical profession, for four years now......Read More
Survivorship in the Time of Coronavirus
By Monique Robinson June 2020
Not much prepares you for a cancer diagnosis. At age thirty-two, I was in a great place in life. I had just celebrated my fourth wedding anniversary to my high school sweetheart and recently started a new job in the public sector after weathering the brutality of life as a law firm associate.....Read More
Lead With Love
By Cyndi Tomlinson May 2020
You could say that cancer has been the uninvited guest to a big portion of my life. It has played an overwhelming part in who I am, yet it taught me how to live my life fearlessly.....Read More
Patient First, Cancer Second
By Guest Blogger Dr. Afsaneh Barzi August 2019
“How can I help you today?” is a question that I ask all of my patients at their first clinic visit. In response, they often look at me as if I must not have reviewed their records, nor spoken to my colleague who referred them, nor even spoken to my physician assistant who met with them before me and briefed me on their clinical issues!....Read More
Partner With Me
By Graciela Santillan July 2019
My cancer diagnosis came as a painful reminder of the past and brought back fearful unknowns. For twenty-five years, I had buried the hurt I experienced as a child. I grew up, hoping to forget about the fragility of life, but with cancer, the anguish came rushing back into my consciousness. Once again, I felt betrayed, helpless and vulnerable. Betrayed by the hope that my genes, relative youth, and healthy choices would safeguard my life. It can be heartbreaking to face your mortality....Read More
Hold Fast To Joy
By Lisa Chakrabarti March 2019
I am first and foremost an artist and have identified as such since childhood. I do not recall a time in my life when it was otherwise. I live in a house full of art materials. Cabinets packed with myriad kinds of paper, more cabinets crammed with collections of pigments, brushes. Notebooks, sketchbooks are stacked about. And my desk! Where is my desk? It’s there, just underneath the organized chaos....Read More
Falling Down Two Times, Getting Up Three
By Phuong Gallagher January 2019
Cancer can happen to anyone. Even those of us with no family history, who exercise regularly, and who eat a very healthy diet. I was only 29 when diagnosed with colorectal cancer. As a young patient, fertility was and probably always will be the most devastating loss for me. My oncologist gave me three weeks to look into harvesting my eggs before starting a treatment regimen that would launch me into early menopause. We saw an infertility specialist and were told that it would cost us anywhere from $10,000-$25,000 to begin the process and even then, nothing was guaranteed...Read More