by Karen Abbott | Feb 18, 2025 | Hope Stories Vol. 2, No 1
Feeling healthy as ever in August 2024, Karen looks forward to living life. I really shouldn’t even be alive, but, by the grace of God, I’m now beating inflammatory breast cancer, having endured 14 surgeries, weeks of hospitalizations, 22 days of two-a-day radiation...
by Aliki | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured Vol. 2, No 1, Hope Stories Vol. 2, No 1, Survivorship Vol. 2, No 1
Getting cancer puts a lot of things into perspective. Things you took for granted are suddenly precious; situations that you would get caught up in and stress about are not that important anymore; you are humbled by force. Right before I got diagnosed, I was facing a...
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 Stephanie | Aug 30, 2024 | Hope Stories Volume 1, Issue 3
Didn’t she ring the bell? Isn’t she done yet? Here’s the “quick” version. In March of 2022, I was diagnosed with Stage 3C Inflammatory Breast Cancer and started treatment at Cleveland Clinic. I had no idea how serious IBC truly was and thought we were following the...
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...