Tomo: Music for Me is the Best Medicine
09.13.17
While fighting a rare melanoma that has cost him his right eye, Gulf War veteran Thomas “Tomo” Riley of Hastings, MN, sometimes tapes a paper target with the word “c-a-n-c-e-r” scrawled in bla...
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Tomo: Fight with Every Ounce of Your Being
09.13.17
While fighting a rare melanoma that has cost him his right eye, Gulf War veteran Thomas “Tomo” Riley of Hastings, MN, sometimes tapes a paper target with the word “c-a-n-c-e-r” scrawled in bla...
Amy: Connection is a Huge Part of Healing
09.13.17
Seeing her 14-year-old son, Andre, play second base and centerfield for the Somerset Spartans after an off-season of treatment for recurrent kidney cancer represents more than Amy Beasley of Somerset,...
Tanya: Cancer is Transformational
09.13.17
Having her chickens come home to roost helped heal Tanya Bailey of St. Paul, MN, during and after treatment for cancer in her left tonsil, at the base of her tongue and lymph nodes. Real chickens. Sil...
Ashley: Choose Joy, Not Negativity
09.13.17
Ashley Gleitz of Cold Spring, MN, turned to music after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, at age 24. “Singing and being able to worship and really just cry out to the Lord in those times ...
Michael: Trust Your Own Intuition
09.13.17
Michael Bischoff of Minneapolis hopes for a cure from brain cancer, and for a long life. But with little ability to control his prognosis, Michael’s main focus is on finding wholeness in each moment...
Kat: Random Acts of Kindness Make It a Good Day
09.13.17
The words of Kat Schilling of Eau Claire, WI, pierce the heart: “As much as I don’t like the fact that I lost a child, it is exactly that … a fact. I cannot change it, no matter how hard I w...
Molly: You Need Someone to Not Forget About You
09.13.17
Molly Sturgis of Chaska, MN, needs neither ruby slippers nor Glinda the Good Witch to know there’s no place like home. Her son, Telford, better known as Telly, was treated for acute myeloid leukemia...
Grace: Never Give Up, Go For Your Dreams
09.13.17
Holding onto her sense of humor has helped heal 14-year-old Grace Bunke of Marietta, GA, through the bone cancer that has taken her hair, some of her hearing, and part of her left leg. Grace’s hair ...
Meritxell: It’s OK to Talk About Cancer
09.13.17
After losing her 35-year-old husband, Spiro Pina, to glioblastoma multiforme, the worst kind of brain cancer, in 2009, Meritxell Mondejar Pont changed careers to become an oncology nurse. “It was ha...