Somethings Just Happen

Somethings Just Happen

Asking “how” or “why me” when given a cancer diagnosis does not serve towards healing.  Sometimes, people who eat a plant based diet, exercise regularly, with no history of smoking or drinking still get cancer.  Sometimes, things just happen. For Jennifer, the lung...
Yes… YOU can

Yes… YOU can

Rebecca Smith’s story I have had multiple health issues as far back as I can remember, starting at about age 13. I always had pains in my stomach, legs, arms, and back. Plus I felt weak a lot! I also would gain weight, then for years was so underweight the doctors...
Five times a WINNER

Five times a WINNER

In 1996, at age 43, Becky went back to school at Marylhurst University, while working a full-time job. Three months later she was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer. It was a really tough time to get such a diagnosis. Her kids were young, her career was at...
Survivor

Survivor

I joined the Air Force and did my basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas. I tested well and was sent to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi to attend Morse Radio Intercept training. Upon completion of my training, I was sent to Crete...
A Life Saving “TRIP”

A Life Saving “TRIP”

While hiking with her husband Robert and children on Memorial Day weekend 2018, Rachel tripped and hit her knee. At a doctor’s appointment they determined a cyst on her knee was the source of the excruciating pain. That seemed so simple, just remove the cyst, then the...
Nolan

Nolan

(The first part of the story is told through my parent’s eyes, as I was only 2 ½ years old when first diagnosed.) I’m told that I started limping off and on in the month of October 1995. In November, the limping got worse and I was refusing to walk and asking to be...