In the Summer of 2012, my dad went to the hospital complaining of stomach pains. Although going to the hospital is scary, my siblings and I weren’t too nervous because…
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I’m a married mother of 2 grown adult children and I’m a nurse in the cardiac department at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. When I had turned 50 in…
Colon Cancer. Stage IV. = Everyone’s worst fears. I still remember hearing the news, crushed and devastated that my mom would have to endure months and months of recovering from…
My name is Frankie Melendez. I am 46 years old and I am a colon cancer survivor. I was diagnosed on Sept 18, 2015 with an apple size tumor in…
My husband Alec has now been our “guardian angel” for 4 years. My son and I always know when he is with us, as we look for signs each and every…
In 2015, the Colon Cancer Coalition awarded Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia a $3,597 grant to create no-cost colon preparation kits for 109 under-served patients prior to their colonoscopies. This…
December 9, 2010 is a day that will forever be etched in my family’s history. It is the day we received the devastating news that my mom, Nancy, had Stage IV colon…
Written By: Kacie Kruger, for her mother. A few weeks before Christmas, my mother was experiencing bowel issues, and her shirts were becoming abnormally tighter. That being said, over time…
Update Sept. 19, 2015. Colon cancer returned with a vengeance on August of this year and the Get Your Rear in Gear – Boston team was devastated to learn of…
“Positivity” is the word that I have tried to live by since April 2013 when I was diagnosed with stage 3-colon cancer and six lymph nodes were affected. It all…