"Cancer treatment alters your identity and forces you to put your life on hold. However, please know that time is a gift. Take the time to try something new and explore a different side of yourself."
Cancer Grads
“ I associated it (cancer) with a death sentence since that was my dad’s outcome. I also assumed that poor diet was a major factor in whether or not you could get cancer. I was so, so wrong.”
Cancer Grads
"Be your own advocate! If you need to get a second opinion get one, you know your own body. If no one listens go to the hospital and lastly get a colonoscopy."
“A half hour before my first round of chemo I got a call from the fertility doctor saying that NONE of our embryos were “good” enough to be frozen...mind you I was that person that didn’t want kids, until the doctor told me I COULDNT have kids.
The doctor said my eggs were “old” eggs and didn’t make it to the stage to be frozen.
As I sat in the bathroom having a melt down, my husband came home and told me that there were SO MANY different way for us to HAVE a family that I didn’t need to stress about that now, that my focus was on getting better.”
