I am an active 44 year old from Missoula Montana. I was diagnosed with breast cancer 6 months ago and spent the winter recovering from bilateral mastectomy/oophorectomy surgeries and chemotherapy. I was able to continue running (albeit fewer miles) during chemo. I started doing yoga during chemo for the relaxation and conditioning benefits.
I am a single mother raising a sixteen year old teenage boy. I learned I had Breast Cancer earlier this year after being diagnosed in February. Surgery was performed in April. i am currently undergoing Chemotherapy. It is a difficult road ahead. My objective is to get past this and carry on with my life.
Scroll up a few months. In the past few months I had my second breast...
My name is Ron Sparks and I have cancer.
Sounds like a 12-step program, huh? Being diagnosed with cancer has changed my life. It's been an incredible journey and it's not nearly over yet. Not even close. As a writer, I have a cathartic need to express myself when I am in trouble - so it's no surprise that I blog profusely about my cancer and my recovery.
I was diagnosed with squamous...
I live in Stockton, California. My husband died in 03 while I was still going through chemotherapy for advanced stage colon cancer. He was my best of best friends and I still feel very much married to him even to this day. I have been completely disabled with Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome - CFIDS for the past thirteen years. This illness has been far more...
Hi there, My name is Susie and I am a full time carer to my husband Hamada who is suffering from Multiple Myeloma - a cancer of the plasma cells, which is a terminal disease but although given just six months, we are now with good care, entering our fourth year. After intial chemotherapy he received a Stem Cell Transplant in 2007 and gained eighteen months remission but is now...
I am president of 4women.com, a company that provides fashionable head wear for women and girls with medical hair loss. Our company also fosters for a better understanding of the emotional side of medical hair loss.
I come from a family with three generations of breast cancer survivors. I also suffer from Alopecia Areata. My disease came on suddenly and unexpectedly. Literally, one day, my...
My cancer journey started at the age of 39 when I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Treatment included radiation and chemotherapy as well as hormone therapy. In 2004, I had a recurrence in my chest area. The hormone therapy was changed with no other cancer to be found. Fast forward to 2008, an annual mammogram showed a lump in my left breast. After numerous scans and tests, the news was...
In 2005, I was diagnosed with a life-threatening neurological disorder, CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy). I had to spend a year undergoing intensive treatments and chemotherapy.
I fought back, started two companies, and am working each day at my own kind of wellness.
I am 37 and stage IV metestastic ovarian cancer. I was diagnosed two years ago and have had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. My cancer has spread to my liver, kidneys, lungs, lymphnodes and brain. I am currently out off treatment and in the end stage. This blog was created as a mechanism to inform my family and friends of my current status and current goings on. Over the last two years it...
I'm a healthy, vibrant and joyful person who owns a Pilates & Gyrotonic studio near the beach in Santa Cruz CA. Never having been sick in my life, I was shocked to find a lump in my right breast in June 2008 and was diagnosed with Stage 1 Grade 3 Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I had a lumpectomy in June 2008 and the aggressive cancer spread to lymph nodes requiring a second surgery in...
