Patient stories

“I was told I had a 40-50% chance of survival. Immediately, my life was in free fall.”

“Going into the stem cell transplant was really daunting. I had no idea what to expect.”

“They did an X-ray, and all of a sudden the room was full, and the word cancer was spoken about.”

“I thought, ‘This can’t be right. Cancer – no, not me.’ I just couldn’t believe that I could have cancer.”

“I’d lost my brother to brain cancer seven years earlier. I couldn’t believe it was happening to me too.”

“Nicki from LBC has been with me from the very start. She’s been awesome.”

“Max didn’t understand why Daddy was gone for a week every couple of weeks.”

“I just burst into tears, and I said, ‘Really? This isn’t going to kill me?’ And she said, ‘Not if you don’t let it.’”

"My body weight plummeted until I was little more than a bag of skin and bones.”

"I was so relieved because I knew once they found something, we could work with it."

"Dance saved me – it’s in my blood."

"I said to the doctor, ‘I can tolerate pain. But I can’t tolerate this.’”

“Eventually, a doctor came in and said, ‘You haven’t been told, have you?’"

“The support LBC gives to people is incredible… It helps people who are going through the journey to not feel so alone.”