How We Heal Podcast: Michael Bischoff
10.27.20
In this episode of How We Heal, a podcast collaboration between CaringBridge and End in Mind, host Brigid Bonner talks with reporter Cathy Wurzer about a framework for healing based on a person’...
Cancer
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Breathe: Living My Best Life With Chronic Lung Cancer
09.24.20
As a professional poker player, Jim Petzing may have bet against receiving two cancer diagnoses in three years. But the retired marketing strategist, a lifelong non-smoker, survived neck cancer treatm...
Leave Your Light On: The Musical Mantra Left Behind by an Illuminating Spirit
07.01.20
After a diagnosis of testicular cancer in 2012, Ryder Buck and his Mom, Shelley, used CaringBridge to keep family and friends updated on Ryder’s health, and on his band, Ryder Buck & the Bre...
Julie’s Story: Reflections of a 35 Year Old Living and Dying With Cancer
06.30.20
It was Julie Green’s hope that sharing the story of her breast cancer diagnosis in 2016 at age 33—invasive ductal carcinoma with a BRCA2 gene mutation—and her choice to focus on life over de...
6 Steps to Form a Care Team and Get the Help You Need
06.18.20
In a health crisis, a bewildering number of decisions, choices and practical needs arise quickly and over time. Family and friends want to help, but even well-meaning offers can become overwhelming an...
A Guy’s Guide to Throat Cancer: Do’s and Don’ts for Recovery
06.01.20
Over the course of 2017, Ed Rossman lost his mom and his sister, and received a diagnosis of 4B oropharyngeal cancer (throat cancer). Running on empty as he prepared for chemo and radiation while...
Sister Act: Facing Cancer, and the Future, Together
03.04.20
The vanKoeverden sisters of Rochester, MN, want you to know they were Ana and Elsa way before the Frozen franchise came along. And to answer what starstruck little kids ask all the time: No merchandis...
Roller Derby Helped ‘Mad Catter’ Skate Through Breast Cancer
03.04.20
Cat Thisius of Rochester, MN, is a preschool teacher by day and a roller derby blocker by night who goes by the name of “The Mad Catter.” Her profession and pastime fall into the category of “ch...
Words of God Gave Mom-to-Be Peace Through Cancer
03.04.20
At her 7-month prenatal checkup in Minneapolis, MN, in November 2018, Sarah Hanan was focused on passing her glucose screening so gestational diabetes could be crossed off her list of expectant-mom wo...
Years After Loss, Grief Still Surfaces as ‘Price of Love’
02.24.20
My husband, Tom Vinje, was diagnosed in March 2008 with a glioblastoma brain tumor. He passed away seven months later, in October 2008. We were together 11 years, married for nine. Tom was one of thos...