by Paige Davis There is really nothing that can prepare you for a cancer diagnosis. It is a shocking and momentary devastation that is overwhelming on so many different levels — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. But perhaps the greatest challenge is identifying the immediate … [Read more...] about Got Cancer: Now What?
Archives for November 2017
Teaching Resilience, Courage, and Perseverance by Barbi Appelquist
Three years ago this weekend, I was diagnosed with my second cancer, a soft-tissue sarcoma. I remember with haunting clarity the early days and months of my diagnosis. This morning, I read a CNN article that highlighted how, in the United States, cancer will bypass heart disease as the No. 1 cause … [Read more...] about Teaching Resilience, Courage, and Perseverance by Barbi Appelquist
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
About Pema Chodron We live in difficult times. Life sometimes seems like a roiling and turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy the world. Why, then, shouldn’t we cling to the certainty of the shore — to our familiar patterns and habits? Because, as Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of … [Read more...] about Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
With Immense Gratitude
The Cancer Centers listed below have placed I Am With You in new patient binders, at the bedsides of hospitalized patients, in the infusion and radiation centers, the anxiety-provoking waiting rooms, the libraries, and in the gift shops. University of California Helen Diller Family Comprehensive … [Read more...] about With Immense Gratitude
Medical Bills, Insurance and Uncertainty by Suleika Jaouad
Like a lot of other young people, I never thought about health insurance until I got sick. I was 22, and my adult life was just beginning. But less than a year after walking across the stage at my college graduation, I received an unexpected diagnosis — acute myeloid leukemia — and with it came a … [Read more...] about Medical Bills, Insurance and Uncertainty by Suleika Jaouad
More Love Letters
More Love Letters to Cancer Patients to come from John Smith Annie Sprinkle Dr. Jerome Freedman Aenea M. Keyes Elana Rosenbaum Allison W. Gryphon Rachel Naomi Remen Sue Glader Molly Ivins Sophia Kercher Terri White Tate Marcy Westerling Mark Garza Aisling Carroll Cindy Finch Leslie … [Read more...] about More Love Letters
The Art of Falling
by Steven Baum I know how to fall. I realized this in midair. After a year of training for a triathlon, and just days before the race, I crashed my bike at 40 mph into the side of a crossing pickup truck. Doctors and nurses were all shocked that I survived. They repeatedly told me I should be … [Read more...] about The Art of Falling
Hope
by Dagmar Herbstreuter The three little words that turned my world upside down came on March 13, 2013. They were not the I love you fairy tale happy ending kinda words, but the devastating diagnosis, “You have cancer.” Talk about a soul punch. Never having experienced such pain before, the only … [Read more...] about Hope