For me, one of the scariest parts of my diagnosis with breast cancer was the challenge of keeping life as normal as possible for my two young daughters.
One thing is very different about the cancer fight this time around. "I've been through it already," she says. "But I've never been through it as a parent."
here is cancer and the threat of cancer all around me. But I'm learning that the more information I have, the more I am able to manage my fears.
When I hear reporters asking delegates if they think people are energized to re-elect President Obama, I have to think that many of his once fervent supporters, like me, are just a little... tired, that's all. But we will have to find a way to rally.
So while I won't be able to celebrate Father's Day with a card for my Dad, a tie he may never wear or a hamburger he's grilled, I will think of him this Sunday. And I will be thinking of dads everywhere, knowing my father's death has saved perhaps more than a few lives.
For our family, somewhere in between those sweet, precious milestones of youth and the grown-up milestones we celebrate today, came one other milestone for all three of my children: They became the children of a dad with cancer.
With 16 unexcused absences -- just two more than the amount permitted by the school district -- high school senior Austin Fisher was told that he woul...
It's as if one day, I just got it: at any given moment we all are just doing the best we can.
