Matt
The cancer radiation nurse didn't think it was funny when I asked her about the possibility of developing super powers.
2012-01-19 16:47:05 / Rating: 689.5 / 
Story archives - tag: "cancer"
I'm only 35
The thing I want most in the world is for my husband to live long enough to need ear hair clippers.
2011-05-06 15:14:56 / Rating: 499 /
Rob
Although cancer took my little brother ten years ago when he was a sophomore in college, his first (and only) boyfriend and I still refer to one another as "brothers-in-law."
2011-04-12 13:24:39 / Rating: 990.25 /
CW
After her surgery she couldn't even speak English anymore, but she still remembered my birthday.
2011-03-30 15:44:32 / Rating: 500 /
InPain
Finding out that it's diverticulitis, not stomach cancer, is only a small relief, as my favorite foods are now off limits.
2010-10-19 15:21:03 / Rating: 276.25 /
Daughter
She cried as her daughter and her best friends shaved their heads too, so she wouldn't have to be bald alone.
2010-08-02 16:18:23 / Rating: 688.75 /
MissingMum
Diagnosed in October, terminal in November, gone by December.
2010-03-04 15:57:24 / Rating: 545 /
lauren
At the age of 12 after a night of particularly heavy discipline, I screamed at my mother that I had called the cops and she told me she might have breast cancer.
2009-05-08 08:03:06 / Rating: 488 /
n.
The moment my friend proudly said that he can "rock a shaved head" proved that he is much stronger than I am in dealing with his cancer.
2009-05-08 07:58:57 / Rating: 598.75 /
JC
I could deal when the cancer took both boobs and stole all my hair, but as it fogged my brain into chemo-mush, that's when it finally hit me where I live.
2009-04-07 08:40:52 / Rating: 343 /
Ruby
My sister walked in on the family crying, unaware we were about to tell her she had been diagnosed with leukemia, and jokingly said, "What, am I dying?"
2009-04-01 11:24:42 / Rating: 852 /
Mineral
I hugged your mom and your girlfriend at your funeral, but when your family bashed me in your eulogy I instantly wished I hadn't.
2009-02-06 14:17:24 / Rating: 518.5 /
rin
All he said was, "Jonathan died today at one."
2009-01-21 15:03:47 / Rating: 424.75 /
Sissy
Just because she just had surgery didn't mean I had to let her win during the Uno tournament.
2009-01-19 15:09:33 / Rating: 538.5 /
Emerentiana
Since he died, I haven't been able to enjoy hugs at all.
2008-11-03 17:35:33 / Rating: 658.5 /
fancy spatula
When the brain tumor failed to kill her, we were convinced that it's because evil doesn't die.
2008-10-27 15:30:48 / Rating: 660.75 /
Elizabeth
When I saw the 29-year-old breast cancer patient laughing at her 14-month-old son's antics, I realized I needed to stop whining about my life and start celebrating it again.
2008-09-04 13:53:23 / Rating: 539.75 /
Starbucks
Every Wednesday morning on my way to chemotherapy, I stop at Starbucks for a tall black and white, even though I can't drink it, just to remind myself of the freedom I've lost to this disease.
2008-07-07 14:00:14 / Rating: 486.25 /
Marley
The last time mom called me out of the blue, she told me she had lung cancer.
2008-07-07 10:36:17 / Rating: 473 /
FormalWare
She was heavier dead than alive.
2008-06-09 12:20:29 / Rating: 590.25 /
lines
Today you shaved your hair into a mohawk to make my mom laugh over losing hers to chemo and today I realized that you are my hero.
2008-06-06 17:06:53 / Rating: 4472.25 /
Carley
I wish hugs cured cancer.
2008-06-03 15:35:35 / Rating: 852.75 /
lassoprecise
In order to feel as if he had some sort of control over his cancer, my father would search the streets for a dollar in change before each chemo session.
2008-04-21 13:59:16 / Rating: 629.5 /
Laura
After hearing from my mother that my father had lung cancer, the only thing I knew to do was light up a cigarette.
2008-03-20 16:07:14 / Rating: 542.25 /
Snarkmeister
It really screwed up my day when the dermatologist told me that the weird scar on my nose was actually skin cancer.
2008-03-07 16:53:20 / Rating: 501.25 /
David
I collapsed into a chair when the vet told me he had cancer, but he put his head in my lap to comfort me, sensing only my sadness.
2007-12-03 15:13:19 / Rating: 929 /
fluffy
Answering the door to trick-or-treaters in all her hairless chemo glory, my mother has inspired me more than she could ever imagine.
2007-11-09 11:01:52 / Rating: 808.25 /
TheresNoNeedToWorry
The fact that doctors are sometimes wrong took away my child.
2007-10-23 11:56:36 / Rating: 450.5 /
Dormouse
It's been eight years this Thanksgiving, and they still sob over his death.
2007-10-08 10:52:05 / Rating: 579.5 /
ivana
The 1/32nd dose of the experimental drug cut her cancer in half, and I can't help but wonder if she would be alive today if they would have just given her a full therapeutic dose.
2007-10-03 10:03:41 / Rating: 719.25 /
ivana
My first kiss happened just months after my mother died.
2007-10-03 10:01:33 / Rating: 715.25 /
Rob
It's sad that my mother's cancer-filled dog seemed more frisky and alert on the day before he was put to sleep than he had been in years.
2007-09-11 12:56:24 / Rating: 690.5 /
Makhai
I went to the doctor to find out why I had cold that wouldn't go away and a cut that wouldn't stop bleeding, and I left with several appointments for chemotherapy.
2007-08-24 16:32:46 / Rating: 625.25 /
Alan Smithee
I just found out that my thirty-year old trailer trash cousin is dying of cancer and all I can think of is "Good riddance."
2007-08-23 17:57:23 / Rating: 445.5 /
truth will prevail
As he walked by, I wondered if the bald headed boy had cancer.
2007-06-26 16:58:18 / Rating: 338.25 /
countedx58
How fitting it was that my best friend's abusive husband died a painful death from melanoma of the rectum.
2007-05-30 13:38:41 / Rating: 766.75 /
Tom Mar Caribe
Seriously, within the four or five months that I worked at a small accounting firm, a CPA died suddenly of cancer, one of the secretaries had a miscarriage, and the other CPA's husband was found by his mother after having died of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
2007-04-11 10:40:30 / Rating: 537.5 /