I found this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer "Beset with 'scanxiety', cancer patients feel a psychic pain" . I've come to learn within the cancer community a new term, “scanxiety". All...

In the spirit of "Waiting Room", my family and I have been in one lately. My mom had a stroke a few weeks ago, followed by several more strokes which left her very disabled. She was hospitalized twice. She yesterday had another massive stroke and is...

At church yesterday the sermon topic was "the waiting room" and how difficult it is for us to wait, and how often God doesn't answer our prayers and requests as quickly as we would like. Or how sometimes he doesn't seem to be answering them at all....

I turned 50 today. It's a milestone...half a century old, 25 years past my favorite age, 25. I loved being 25 as I was educated, had a good job, was independent and self-supporting, didn't feel vulnerable, and still felt I had lots of time to change...

I have a friend who recently had a needle biopsy for a lung mass that might be cancer. She is waiting for pathology results. They told her she'd have the results in 5-7 days. She called the office over a week later, no results yet. She spoke of a...

I hear a lot about positive mental attitude and the fight against cancer. When I was diagnosed, I did have an attitude, but it wasn't necessarily positive. I knew my prognosis was poor, and I didn't know if I would survive. While I made plans for...