Patient stories

“I knew I had cancer, but it didn’t seem like it was happening to me.”

“20 minutes later, the doctor came back with the results of the blood test and a letter, saying, ‘Take this to the hospital – and I suggest you take an overnight bag.’”

“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.’”