Stories

My Two Lives

I feel like I have lived two lives: my pre-cancer life and my life as a survivor. Before my diagnosis, cancer was an ambiguous word that invoke...

Advocating for your child is exhausting. I am not talking about meeting with a teacher about make-up assignments, or an email sent to the bas...

On a snow-thawing day in Minnesota, osteosarcoma survivor Anna (35) wrote a beaming message on her Facebook page: "Mila Alice was born March 2,...

Caregivers are present at the beginning, middle and end of cancer. Caregivers are the people who go to the first doctor appointment for “ju...

Eight hundred and fifty nine days. 859 days after our souls were crushed by the news that our toddler had blood cancer, she has completed her c...

‘Midline malignant glioma’ is a mouthful – and it’s also one of the deadliest forms of childhood cancer. A four year old child diagnose...

April 30, 2017 will, for my wife and I, be a date that we will always know where we were, what we did, every moment of the entire day. It was a...

When I was 17 years old, I was a three-sport varsity athlete, lifeguard and fiercely independent oldest child. I spent most summer nights at bo...

Dustin Hron is a Care Partners volunteer in the bone marrow transplant unit at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. A neu...

It is with great sadness that we share our dear friend, Callie, passed away on Sat., April 7, 2018 after a two-year battle with pelvic rhabdomy...

In his three years of participating in Great Cycle Challenge USA (GCC), Jeff Freitag has ridden 970 miles — that’s more than three times ac...

Six years apart, a mother and daughter both passed away from brain cancer. Today, their families reached a goal set nearly 10 years ago to hono...

Michigan Kids are fearless, reckless and infinitely braver than most adults. I think that God makes them that way to remind us that he’s in c...

The summer months were in full swing in August but my 16-year-old body was more like an 80-year-old woman’s in a nursing home. Only a few sho...

The passing of time is a gift. I have found time cannot be grasped nor exchanged like currency but nine years after my cancer treatments conc...

I went to that place once. For just a moment, I thought about what could have been, and I almost lost every spark of joy I had left. Despair...

Connor was only 6 weeks old when he survived an emergency brain surgery. It was in the hours of that life-changing surgery that I learned to ...

Mariah was diagnosed with osteosarcoma when she was 2 years old. After undergoing hospitalizations, painful treatment and amputation surgery, M...