To My Mom When She Was Diagnosed With Cancer
Dear Mom, I’ll never forget the day you were diagnosed with cancer. Neither of us cried. I’m not sure if it was because we were just too numb…
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Thank You, Cancer
Dear cancer, Two years ago today, you came into my life when I was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, or ACC, a rare salivary gland cancer.…
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How a Photo Shared in a Facebook Group of Moms Helped Save One Little Boy’s Life
Mom groups often get a bad name for being catty, judgy, or full of multi-level marketing schemes—and to be honest, a few of them can be like that.…
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To the Moms Who Conquered Cancer
Some of us moms have fought one of the scariest battles of all. It’s a disease whose name causes hearts to race, faces to turn ashen, and rooms to…
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It’s OK to Just Listen
Grief makes us uncomfortable. Being face to face with someone else’s intense sadness is really hard. In my life, people feel doubly awkward because…
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How Balloons are Helping One Little Boy Cope With His Mom’s Cancer Diagnosis
Dana Dirkes’ life was rocked in July when she was very quickly and surprisingly diagnosed with Large B Cell Lymphoma after a routine doctor’s…
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When Daddy Isn’t Coming Home
For most children, the concept of death is introduced with the death of a pet, an elderly grandparent or perhaps a poor raccoon spotted on the side…
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To the Young Warriors Fighting Cancer, You Are Superheroes
Most people never get to meet their heroes. I have, in fact—I have met many heroes. These heroes didn’t set out for…
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How Having Cancer Changed My Life
My diagnosis with breast cancer came as such a shock that my imagination failed me. I could not look at my chest and see spindly-armed tumors…
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Cancer Can’t Take That
“Hi, I’m Martha!” A lady around my mom’s age with tightly curled blonde hair approached me at my boyfriend’s church softball game. “I’m…
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