I've Lived a Good Life: Scleroderma, Faith, and Finding Peace
"This is the path that God has put me on."
Who’s This Life For Anyway? Living Authentically with Stage Four Cancer
"I hate that cancer is the reason, but I have, and continue to, become more of my authentic self."
A Problem For Future Me: Cancer and the Worries That Can Wait
"That's quite literally someone else's problem. And that someone else is me — just not me today."
We Talk Living, Not Numbers: Defying the Odds of Stage Four Breast Cancer
"They're not talking about me — I'm above average!"
Living Inside “I Don’t Know”: When Answers are as Rare as the Cancer
"I remember going in and asking them straight up: am I going to die? And they were like, I don't know."
Movement Is Medicine: How an Ironman Faces Stage Four Cancer
"Living well and dying well are so deeply connected. You cannot remove one from the other."
Do It Now: Living with ALS, One Trip at a Time
"If you're gonna do it, do it now, 'cause you're just gonna get worse. Do not put it off."
Cancer Expert, Cancer Patient: A Doctor Faces the Disease He Knows Best
“It’s a privilege to take one diagnosis for the team.”
Crash Landing — A Mother’s Journey Into Grace
“She May Be Lying Down, But She May Be Very Happy”
One of One — Advocating for Your Life in a System Built for Many
"For the doctors, you're one of 100. For you, you're one of one."
Cancer Takes and Takes, But It Also Gives: Clara's Story
"I think it's important to always have something to look forward to, to kind of keep you going."
When the Zebra Catches You: Living with Rare Cancer at 28
"Cancer never lets you forget it's there"
“100 More Steps” : Endurance, Acceptance, and Brain Cancer
“I kept saying...what is the best possible outcome right now?”
“I’m Turning to Stone”: Choosing to Live Fully with Scleroderma
“I’m part gargoyle is what I tell people. Because I’m turning to stone. I literally am.”
Gratitude and Grace: Reflections on Three Thanksgivings
This Thanksgiving, Cody and Chris share their gratitudes for Year Three of Dying To Tell You.
The Other Shoe: Life Between the Scans
"Be the one to take responsibility for your health, your life. Nobody's gonna hold your hand to the doctor."
The Beauty and Burden of Being: A Stage Four Cancer Patient's Search for Meaning
“Please, all of you people out there, don't wait until you're dying to see the beauty in life.”
Heal Your Mind: The Power of Therapy in a Cancer Journey
"I didn't want to survive. I wanted to live. I knew that I wanted to live."
An Absolutely Fabulous Glitter Ghost: ALS and Dreams of a Gen X Afterlife
“I would love it if the afterlife looked like the 80s.”
20 Weeks Pregnant and a Diagnosis of Brain Cancer
“I just want to be sunshine. I want to light up a room when I come in.”