Faces of Blue

I am Barbara Majeski, a wife and mother, dedicated to my family. I was diagnosed at 42, with stage 3 colon cancer and have received six months of chemotherapy. I…

On May 6, 2012, I woke up with a horrible pain in my stomach and could not stop vomiting. The pain was unlike anything I have ever felt, finally I…

Jennifer first shared her story in March 2016. Since being published, she has had a recurrence, and is now a stage IV survivor. After undergoing a lung and liver resection, Jennifer…

I am Monica Rosario and my husband is Bernard McGee. We met at Virginia State University while completing ROTC requirements in order to commission into the United States Army. We were only friends back then….

For an entire year I ignored the pain in my stomach. I bushed it off as symptoms from Crohn’s disease. I was never a fan of going to the doctor,…

My name is Pattie and my journey began on May 19, 2014. I was 50 and I was going to have my baseline colonoscopy. I had occasional blood in my…

My cancer journey started in 2007. I was 32-years-old, married, and had two young boys. Life seemed busy with the juggle of work, kids, school, and my husband’s work schedule….

It was early Fall of 1999. I was just starting my forth year of graduate school (an MA/PhD program in Linguistics). I had been having some unusual symptoms as of…

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…