“Grace is most clearly seen in a heart that remains gentle where life has sought to harden it.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the cancer journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is where the hardest part of the journey begins.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“For some of us, the hardest part of the cancer journey is surviving life AFTER treatment, the doctor tells us we should return to our lives and put the experience of cancer behind us but going through treatment fundamentally changes you forever and it’s impossible to go back to the life we knew before.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Having cancer, fighting cancer, and beating cancer have been THE defining events in my life, and though it was the most terrifying, I know that it has changed me for the better, forever.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Fighting the disease is hard enough, even when you are completely focused on just that. Extra time and effort spent worrying about the situation can be detrimental to your body's physical health.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Cancer represents a very specific, emotional uniqueness of your body failing you, generally through no fault of your own. But please know that no matter how hard or bad you believe your situation to be, there is somebody out there who's got it worse.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“When I was initially diagnosed with cancer, I questioned God's reasoning for giving me such a debilitating disease. But then it dawned on me: He chose me to give this disease because He knew that I could handle it!”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“I had been looking forward to actually beginning to fight this disease, this foreign invader that had kidnapped my spirit and ransacked my body )like the Dothraki in Game of Thrones would have certainly done.)”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“You must realize that having cancer affects not only you, but everyone who cares for you as well. I had realized this after only one year of treatment, but I don't think I've ever truly understood how hard the experience was for my family.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“My name is Brett Cordes and I just want to let you know that I'm standing here right now because you saved my life 12 years ago." There. Was. Silence. "I know who you are," his voice quivered just above a whisper as he walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed my father's letter. "Your father wrote me this letter about a year after you finished treatment, and I've kept it ever since and show it to all my residents and fellows ...to show them why we do what we do.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease