by staff | Dec 29, 2024 | Legacy & Tribute, Personal Journeys
Our story: “It did come back malignant.” Time stopped. Life changed. At that moment, I became a statistic. 1 in 8. The 1 in 8 women that are diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Four days later, I became 1 in 3000. The 1 in 3000 of women diagnosed with breast cancer while...
by staff | Oct 31, 2024 | Legacy & Tribute
In 2008, during a regular routine exam, my doctor of 20 years informed me she thought she had felt a tumor. She sent me to the gynecologist for a biopsy. The gynecologist decided not to do the biopsy because given my age and the location of the tumor, it’s almost...
by staff | Sep 30, 2024 | Legacy & Tribute
“You’re going to need to see an oncologist.” Words I never thought I would hear. Cancer touches a lot of people. No one ever really thinks it will be them. No family history, in fact no one close to me had ever gone through cancer. I felt very much like, it happens,...
by staff | Sep 30, 2024 | Legacy & Tribute
I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia July 2011. And was told without a life saving stem cell transplant I wasn’t going to live the year. After nearly a year of in and out of the hospital including my cancer relapsing February of 2012; I had a life saving stem...
by staff | Sep 1, 2024 | Legacy & Tribute
So it was towards the end of October when I first started getting sick. It was roughly around October 26th or 27th when I started just having the worst vomiting and diarrhea experience I ever had. I had gone into the ER like the day of when it started just to try and...
by staff | Aug 30, 2024 | Legacy & Tribute
December 25th, 2013, I was 19 years old. Little did I know my life was about to change. As you may know or not know, 70-80% of our immunity is within our gut. Growing up I had many stomach, bowl, and intestinal issues, causing pain, nausea, vomiting and irritability....
