Jumpstart Conversations Around Cancer with M.C. Plays Hide & Seek

How will you make this Thanksgiving meaningful? Need some new ideas to infuse quality into your time together as a family? After recovering from cancer and getting a second chance at life, I had regrets. I was so busy running children around, I didn’t take time to teach life values in a meaningful way. So, [...]

By |2020-11-20T09:17:36-05:00November 20th, 2020|News, Storytelling, Survivorship, Talk for Hope|0 Comments

Keynote Speaker Stories Part 9: Laughter Is Medicine

“The name of the game is calories.” Dr. Vigneri, my radiation oncologist, informed me. “Forget what you’ve learned about healthy eating. I don’t care how you get those calories. Bulk up. I guarantee you will lose weight and you don’t have much to lose. Milkshakes with every meal. All the Haagen Daaz you can eat!” [...]

By |2020-08-07T11:40:41-04:00August 7th, 2020|Speaker, Storytelling, Survivorship|8 Comments

Keynote Speaker Stories Part 8: Oral Cancer, It’s a Thing

When I mention to people I had oral cancer, very often I am greeted with a dumbfounded expression and the comment, ‘Huh? That’s a thing?’ My eyebrows rise, my head tilts, I flash an all-knowing grin and nod. It's so remarkable that one can get cancer in the mouth, people genuinely want to know more [...]

By |2020-07-27T15:51:58-04:00July 26th, 2020|Oral Cancer, Speaker, Storytelling, Survivorship|0 Comments

Keynote Speaker Stories Part 4: To Life

On the auspicious and final day of radiation treatment, I left the treacherous terrain behind me and settled onto the road back to the rest of my life. Leaning on my husband's strength, we walked at a slow pace to the car. He opened the door for me as he always did since the day [...]

By |2020-06-08T08:58:51-04:00June 5th, 2020|Speaker, Storytelling, Survivorship|30 Comments

Keynote Speaker Stories Part 3: Hair Complex

In the hospital, during many long hours alone and in pain, the mind wanders. Since tissue from my hairy thigh replaced the forearm tissue which was moved to my tongue. Would thigh hair now grow on my inner wrist? Would arm hair now grow on my tongue? This was my worst nightmare! Would I have [...]

By |2020-06-05T13:49:12-04:00June 1st, 2020|Speaker, Storytelling, Survivorship|15 Comments

Keynote Speaker Stories Part 2: Owning My Scar

As anyone who has undergone a major surgery knows, all things familiar and safe immediately fall away. As the backward countdown begins, you find yourself crossing the threshold into a cold, dark space with room for only one. The clear path forward is to seek out signs pointing in the direction of hope. Once hope [...]

By |2020-06-05T18:37:54-04:00May 28th, 2020|News, Speaker, Storytelling, Survivorship|28 Comments
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