In September of 2014, I was a young mother of a 1 year old little girl. I went in for a routine eye exam and the eye doctor discovered a spot on my eye she wanted me to have checked out. The next day she sent me to a retina specialist who told me the spot was a tumor....
Stage IV Non-small cell Lung Cancer? You could have knocked me over with a feather when I was diagnosed. I was only 58, a non-smoker, VERY active and the picture of health. I did not have the usual symptoms, only a pain in the middle of my back that would not go...
Health and prevention have always been an important part of my life. Breast cancer runs in my family; all were diagnosed in their early thirties and died well before their 50th birthday. As a precautionary measure my doctor recommended mammograms starting in my mid...
I was 44 years old, an active, healthy, non-smoker, long distance runner, nurse, wife and mother of two teenagers when life changed forever. In February 2017, I was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. I promise I was the last person you would have thought to develop...