by Natalie Raines | Dec 1, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 4, Mind & Body Volume 1, Issue 4
I’d like to equate my life’s journey to a sailing yacht on a great sea. I charted my course and set sail a long time ago. I have run into rough seas on occasion and adjusted my sails or altered my course to find calmer waters. My sailing yacht was 57...
by Kristine | Aug 30, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 3
On January 24, 2014 at 4:45 pm I was diagnosed with stage 3B, almost C, triple negative inflammatory breast cancer. A day I will never forget! I remember crying the entire weekend but then I woke up on Monday morning with a mission. A mission to fight! I was only 39...
by Tiffany | Aug 30, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 3
This month marks six years that I received my reoccurrence diagnosis. This one hit harder, this one was scarier, this one felt like there was absolutely no hope!! I of course have followed the IBC Facebook page since my initial diagnosis in December of...
by Morningstar | Feb 22, 2024 | Family Volume1, Issue 1, Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 1, Survivorship
It was just beginning to get warm in April of 2010 when we took a trip to Galveston with our kids who were 12 and 3 years old. About this time my husband had noticed a small pea sized ball on my left breast, never had he told me that I needed to go to the doctor but...
by Danielle Cameron | Feb 15, 2024 | Advocacy Volume 1, Issue 1, Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 1
In 2019, I was living my best life. At 39 years old, I savored the beautiful chaos of raising a family while pursuing my passion for teaching. With a five-year-old, a two-year-old, and another on the way, life was bustling with joy and anticipation. Little did I know,...
by Amy | Feb 9, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 1, Survivorship Volume 1, Issue 1
by Amy I was by myself at the hospital when I found out I had cancer. It was 2020 and at the height of the Covid crisis. No one was allowed to go with me, so I ventured in alone. I never thought I’d actually have cancer. Mind you, I...