Staying In Touch With Reality
December 10, 2015 By: Brigitte Ulses I often have long, complicated daydreams where my mind wanders to all sorts of interesting places and times. During one of these dreams, I often think about [...]
Mind the Milestones: Becoming an Adult while Living with Cancer
January 22, 2015 By: Chad Hammond Development — it’s a dark hallway of a word. When I asked young adults with cancer to talk about the years before their diagnosis, they mentioned developmental [...]
What Keeps Me Going – The Present Love (Being a Mom with Metastatic Breast Cancer)
November 25, 2014 By: Julie Szasz As I was walking my puppy this morning, thoughts came to my mind: I started wondering what has kept me going in the last 5 years. Yes, soon it will be 5 years [...]
A Teenage Boy and His Parents Walk Into a Sperm Bank
October 30, 2014 By: Benjamin Rubenstein I have become desensitized to the annual ritual where my dad hands me an envelope he’s received in the mail addressed to me and that has no return [...]
How to let go
September 2, 2014 By: Pat Taylor While attending the OMG2014 Cancer Summit for Young Adults in Las Vegas last month, I sat in on a session full of parents talking about the challenges they were [...]
Telling it like it is – Disclosing your cancer history
August 7, 2014 By: Anne Katz PhD, RN One of the biggest issues for single cancer survivors who are interested in dating is if and when to tell a prospective partner about the cancer. And when you [...]
Dating after Cancer
July 15, 2014 By: Anne Katz PhD, RN Dating is scary for some people (well, maybe most people!) and dating during and after cancer can be especially scary. While everyone is different, most people [...]
Cancer, Sex and All That Stuff
May 29, 2014 By: Anne Katz PhD, Rn Hello and welcome to my new blog series for CancerFightClub! I am a certified sexuality counselor and registered nurse who works at CancerCare Manitoba (in [...]
No Grades for Cancer: Redefining Success as a Student
May 15, 2014 By: Elise Frame I am good at being a student. I thrive in situations where I have tangible, feasible goals in sight and a well-defined path to accomplish them. I play by the rules [...]
