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PARENTS WITH CANCER: “Anger Hurts.”
Em Sun with her son, Luke. Name: Em Sun Children’s names and ages: Luke, 5 Location: Australia Diagnosis: PMBCL and then CNS relapse Treatments: 6XEPOCH-R 4XMex/Cytarabine 20 rounds whole head...
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How to Be Middle-Aged
My kids seem to think I’m too old for this hat. I dunno. Every once in a while, I realize that I don’t know how to be middle-aged, probably because I sort of fast-forwarded here, like a Tivo through...
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CAREGIVERS OF CANCER: “Take Time for Yourself”
Cameron Von St. James with Lily and Heather Name: Cameron Von St. James Relation to patient: Husband to Heather Child’s names and age: Lily, 7 years Location: St. Paul, MN Patient’s Diagnosis: Pleural...
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PARENTS WITH CANCER: “Chemo Gifts Make Separation Easier”
April Stearns with Nia, who turns 5 this year. Name: April Stearns Child’s name and age: Nia Stearns, 4 ½ Location: Santa Cruz, CA Diagnosis: Stage 3 Breast Cancer (E/PR-, HER2+) Treatments: 4 months...
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Widowed Fathers Find Hope and Help in Each Other
At Parenting with Cancer, we don’t like to sugar-coat the painful parts of cancer. Cancer sucks, and bad things can happen to good people. As such, we were struck by this wonderful program for fathers...
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Overdue Permission from a Cancer Survivor
I wrote this for the parents who read my 10-year-old blog, MommaSaid.net, but I thought you should read it, too. We all need permission to be nice to ourselves, especially when we are sick. — Jen...
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But What About My Cancer Awareness Month?
In case you missed it, September was Blood Cancer Awareness Month. My Cancer Awareness month. You may not have noticed Blood Cancer Awareness Month, what with all the pink that starts showing up in...
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Soap Star Linsey Godfrey Pregnant and Cancer-Free
When Linsey Godfrey started feeling tired and cold last fall, she had a choice: take a pregnancy test or call her oncologist. “I would get up and eat breakfast, and that’s all I could do for the day,”...
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Children Really Aren’t All That Resilient
People do indeed say the darndest things when you have cancer. Here’s a sampling of what I heard when I was sick: Phlebotomist: “Non-Hodgkin’s. That’s the bad cancer, right?” Neighbor: “Non-Hodgkin’s?...
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What the Kids Would Tell You
My boys and me in Asbury Park, NJ, this month. This afternoon, I asked my kids what they would tell parents just diagnosed with cancer about how to handle parenting with cancer. My boys were 8 and 10...
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Kissing Donny Goodbye
WARNING: Potential trigger for the newly diagnosed, those prone to prednisone weepies, and anyone dealing with grief and loss because of F-ing Cancer. Until last week, this photo was about celebration....
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Slash, Burn and Poison: Cancer Words Matter
Taken in Cancun during our favorite word: Remission. For a long time, the treatment options for cancer could be pretty much summed up with three words: Slash (surgery) Burn (radiation) Poison...
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10 Ways to Help a Friend with Cancer
Your friend has been diagnosed with cancer, but you’re not sure how to help, or if to even offer it. How can you show your support without overstepping your bounds? Saying, “If you need my help, I’m...
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I’m a Survivor. What?
Sometimes I wish I’d had my cancer treatments in the dead of winter, on dreary, gray days covered in sleet and despair. Because when it’s gorgeous out there–a tableau of autumn’s oranges, reds,...
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What’s on Your F-It List?
Jerry Seinfeld was having none of it. At the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Friday night, he told a packed audience that at 61, he no longer has a bucket list. Rather, he has “replaced the b with...
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To the Mere Mortals of Cancer
To the Mere Mortals of Cancer: You know who you are. You’ve got cancer. You’re in treatments, or you’ve finished treatments and now you wait. You’re missing things, like your hair, your breasts, a big...
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The Extraordinary Ordinary Anniversary
This afternoon, a baby bear rambled past my window. That’s just about the most exciting thing to happen to me today. Oh, and I wasn’t diagnosed with cancer for the 10th June 6th in a row. That’s...
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