Crystal's StoryCrystal Stophel had just turned 40 when she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2019. A single mom and professional career woman who had worked with both breast and OB/GYN surgical specialists, she understood the inner workings of the medical...
My inspiration comes from a network of friends family and many prayer warriors in my corner. The outpouring of hope and strength coming my way was incredible and I am forever grateful. Also a book that a friend of the family wrote regarding her journey with an...
In May of 2014, I was told something no one should ever hear: “You have cancer.” The path to writing this 10 years later was not linear; it was filled with challenges, from my diagnosis of Stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to negative thoughts such as...
On August 22, 2022 I was just loving life. I was 63 years old and my husband, Bill and I had just returned from a 21 day vacation in Italy.
I was diagnosed with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Stage IV B, five years ago.
After initially being diagnosed with pneumonia, I was shocked to learn at age 39 that I had stage 4b NSCLC. I was diagnosed in February 2022.
“To know Jenn is to love her,” said Jenn Bohlander’s friend Colleen Pirozzi. From traveling to Antarctica twice in her role as Scientific Programmer at University of Colorado Boulder and receiving the Congressional Antarctic Service Medal for her work there, to completing several marathons and a triathlon, Jenn’s list of accomplishments is notable.
I am a Lung Cancer survivor. On January 8, 2017 I had chest pains. These weren’t new but they were different and actually I had been having intermittent chest pains but they always went away. This time seemed different, and my daughter insisted that I go to the ER.
My name is Barbara and I am a 43-year-old two-time cancer survivor. I have lost 4 family members to lung cancer over a 10-year period starting at age 27, including my dad, uncle, grandmother and my mother. I was also the caregiver for both of my parents.
There was no warning. On that March 2021 day, one moment, Surgery Physician Assistant Elissa Doty was pulling up patient files, and the next, she collapsed on the ground. Her heart stopped. Three times.