Lean on Me: Fighting Cancer Together

  Hi Kim, I really have tried to respond to this several times. The site keeps logging me out due to inactivity. I have a little time now because I am i...

  It was the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, 2013. I woke up, showered then, as per usual, put lotion on all of my dry spots. Special focus on my legs, a...

  My mother describes the same sense of betrayal as longtime friends could not cope with her illness. At the same time, the seriousness of the illnes...

  A Dragons Tale and A Mothers Love. Once upon a time, in a land not far from here, there was a hill. On that hill was a castle. This castle was no or...

  Never Once Diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma when I was 8 years old in 1978, I am now 36 years out from that diagnosis, 36 years beyond the cure, 36 yea...

  One cancer diagnosis can affect so many people. It is so important that as we are touched, we think about all of those around us and how they are imp...

  June, 2009, I'm living in a very small, claustrophobic casita in the ultra-conservative Utah neighborhood called Ivins, in southern-Utah, near Zion Na...

  There was clearly something wrong with the thing. Women have all sorts of varied relationships with their breasts, and I’m certain mine is differe...

  During a routine physical in February 2012, my doctor decided I should have a chest x-ray for a slight cough. The x-ray showed a mass in my chest. It ...

  As an independent single woman, the diagnosis of breast cancer meant many things but one thing that became apparent rather quickly was that I would ne...