"I learned that it is okay *NOT* to be okay."
Cancer Grads, Rare Cancer
“Honor yourself, care for yourself and don’t feel ashamed to be selfish with your time. This also includes freeing yourself from always feeling like you have to be a hero. There’s a time and a place for tying that cape around your neck, but you also have the right to wallow as needed; just make sure you don’t set up camp there.”
Cancer Grads, Rare Cancer
“Being an outsider, you assume the hardest thing a cancer patient goes through is the treatment itself…but in my opinion, it’s not. The hardest part is what comes next…when treatment stops, but you still look sick, you still have to go to appointment after appointment, you fear a recurrence and your life that once was no longer exists and you have to put the pieces back together in a way that’s a bit different.”
Cancer Grads, Rare Cancer
“If there is an opportunity for me to share my story or talk with someone, I always do. The biggest thing is to share our stories. Anyone who follows me on Facebook or Instagram knows that I’ll share because knowledge is power- if someone has a family member going through it, they can see me as another resource.”
Cancer Grads, Rare Cancer
I’d also like to help ovarian cancer become a disease that is ruled out, rather than ruled in. So many women spend months to years fighting to get a diagnosis. It shouldn’t be so difficult.
Cancer Grads, Rare Cancer
"The first diagnosis was the hardest moment, the doctor said I basically had six months. I have a little girl, which at that moment was young (almost 3 years old). My husband, who is very strong, was devastated. It was a hard hard moment to get through. But after that, after rock bottom, all we had left was to stand up, so I did it, WE did it, as a family. And 3 years later, I’m still here living my life, seeing my little princess grow, and getting thanking God for letting me be here."
