by Garth Sundem | Sep 23, 2020 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Inspiration
Treatments for many pediatric cancers have improved to the point that a child’s cancer diagnosis come with an 84 percent cure rate. Of course, that means cancer is still fatal for almost 16 percent of young patients and that rate is much higher in some forms of...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 18, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness
My family is pretty rooted in tradition. We always spend Christmas Eve at my great-aunt’s house in a tiny little town in northern Minnesota with anywhere from 40-60 people packed tightly into her home. My mom prepped the Thanksgiving turkey with the same recipe that...
by Mette de Fine Licht | Oct 2, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Inspiration
Mette, bald from chemotherapy to treat Ewing’s sarcoma “Have you tried running on the new leg yet?” my friend asks. We’re walking down the high school hall, on the way to our next class. She carries my bag at a pace that matches my crutches and stiff leg. I am...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 25, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Self Help
My hair at the end of December — happy with the growth, but self-conscious Before getting diagnosed with cancer, I never really focused much on the topic of confidence. I was able to make friends, talk to people with relative ease and speaking in front of a...
by Sheri Brisson | Sep 18, 2019 | Chronic/Serious Illness
It’s heartbreaking that the average age of children diagnosed with cancer is just six-years-old. But fortunately, due to breakthroughs in medical research and treatment, today nearly 90% of these children will survive. However, the devastating fact is that 60% of...
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