On November 27, 2012 I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. It was the year my youngest son was to graduate from high school and such a busy time. In the…
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“Greater Assets,” a colon cancer art exhibit in downtown Tulsa, opened with great success this past March. With an estimated $10,000 raised to increase colon cancer education efforts in the Tulsa-area,…
A big thank you to everyone who shared their stories for this year’s Faces of Blue series! If you missed one, you can find them all here. We are excited to…
I was diagnosed with stage IIIa colon cancer on December 28th, 2014. I was 43 and truly in what I thought was the prime of my life: two healthy kids,…
I went in for a colonoscopy in November 2012 at age 52. Colon cancer doesn’t run in my family and I had no symptoms, so I wasn’t really worried about…
It seems like just the other day. On December 1, 2014, it seemed like my world was coming to an end. On that day, I was diagnosed with colon cancer…
For almost two years, I had light blood in my stools, some cramping, but I figured it was IBS. Then, two weeks after my 40th birthday, I was at the…
I am a wife and mother to two young adults and a fur baby. In addition, I am a teacher who works with middle school students. I am also a…
My world collapsed in every form and fashion on May 8, 2013. Only a few days before, life was pretty great. My 31-year-old husband Chris Wickham and I had just found…
After having retired from full-time employment and having moved with my wife from Minnesota to South Carolina in 2013, I had my “regularly scheduled ten-year colonoscopy” early in January of…