Stories

Tougher Than Rocket Science

Osteosarcoma is so overwhelmingly good at overcoming current treatments that it may just take a rocket scientist to help defeat it. Theresa Bee...

After surviving two cancers and a bone marrow transplant (BMT), it was finally time to start school at the University of Minnesota. I worked so...

Two-year-old Joey arrived at the coffee shop fast asleep and nestled against his mom, Ames, when we first met them. Tiny hearing aids poked thr...

My name is Dexter. Everyone calls me Dex. I am 10 years old, and I have terminal neuroblastoma. When we found out the cancer was back, I sat do...

Rallying families to share their children’s stories isn’t easy, because I ask them to open doors to the most intense pain. I share with the...

From going to the Little League World Series to heading to soccer practice, Justin Cowen had an insatiable love of sports. You’d often find h...

Eight years ago, on a cold and dreary November day, Rob and I picked Zach up from school to take him to our local hospital for an MRI. We...

I’ll never forget the day a social worker sat with me in my living room and told me that it was normal to want my brother to die. My younger ...

The Fourth of July 2011 is etched in my memory as the last “normal” family holiday we ever had. I was about to start my senior year of coll...

California When we say “against all odds”, what do we really mean? Does it mean that we defeated a concept? Won a battle against some well-...

This speech was originally presented by Mariah at Time to Fly on September 9, 2017. Thank you all for coming out today. It is really special to...

North Carolina Wearing a hospital gown, Tanner picked “the cherry smell” to go with the anesthesia for his port removal surgery — a proce...