Faces of Blue

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…

Fall of 2012. It’s official. That is definitely blood in my poo. I tried to believe it was something else for quite a while–2 or 4 months. I very much…

I lost my mom, Rosalinda Pizzaro, to stage IV colon cancer on 02/23/15 at the age of 66. About a month before she passed she was right as rain about…