I Lost a Friend to Cancer Stories of Experiences

When I was 12. My doctor told me that I had leukemia and I had to stay in the hospital for a while. I hated the hospital, I hated my disease, and most of all I was angry. at my parents, doctors and the world.
The only one I could...

I met my friend about 12 years ago when she became my co-worker. She was old enough to be my mother (25 years older than me) and interesting enough some of her life experiences were similiar to me. Both of us grew up in single parent...

My friend Robert lost his battle w gastric cancer this year on May 28th.. He was a.true fighter til that day he fought hard to maintain his strength for the.sake of wanting to continue to live his.life.to.the.fullest w his.friends.and...

I recently lost a very wonderful lady who I loved as a friend a mother and someone who only would listen to me while telling a story. She wasnt ever the one to judge me. I just lost her from battling cancer. It happened to be my best...

Her name was Michelle. When I met her, she already had breast cancer. She should have, and would have beat it, but was misdiagnosed for 2 years. For the next year and a half that I knew her, it just spread and spread. She spent the last...

I lost my friend when I was 19, he had not long turned 21. We had been friends since I was 3, and although there were a couple of years here and there that we didn't see as much of each other, we were good friends. His death is so far...

365 days ago, one of the best people I have ever known left this life. She was an amazing mother of 3 who would do anything for anyone at any time.

Kristin and I met when we were high school freshmen. She started about the middle...

this is something i do not know much about except that there is no cure.  and it is not discriminatory. i lost a friend yesterday to cancer.  she was 51 years old.  she was chinese/vietnamese.  she spoke 6 languages.  she was a...

I had a best friend since the 2nd grade... His name is Mikio we got along instantly when we met, he moved away in the 4th grade and camBre back in the 5th grade, though at the time i was(and is) suffering from mental heath issues and...

I was in Perth, Australia meeting new family when I found out. It was July 17th back home in the States. So it would have been about 2 am on the 18th in Perth. I had just gotten back a weekend in Kalbarie with my family and was checking...

I lost my mom to cancer wen I was seven she was fighting it for a long time and I never got to see her before she died and I wish I wouldn’t have gotten to know her better

Oh yeah I survived this dreaded disease..... Forgot to tell because I was intent on talking about my brother..............

I have experienced this cruel disease also. Friends have succumbed and also family members.....Right now my brother is dying from liver cancer. The docs gave him 6 months to live but I think he has 6 weeks. It is a disgusting disease...

It’s not an easy thing to do but with grace, goodness and beautiful aplomb, Elizabeth Edwards softly said goodbye Monday afternoon. Little did she know her words would bring tears to thousands … no, millions … who have watched her...

I have often thot that when my friend Brooke has struggled with it for a couple years , lost all her hair, then all her teeth! and on and on, over and over , cycle on cycle off. Then my friends husband got lung cancer , he was sicker...

A few weeks ago I was pulled out of my classroom in the early morning by a friend and dragged into the girls’ bathroom. I didn’t know what to expect, but I know it wasn’t what I heard. She told me our friend who was...

I had a very good friend of mine pass away from cancer a few weeks ago. The sad part is that even though we kept in touch after we graduated years ago, he never even told me that he was sick! Our other friend who he talked with on a...

My friend of 6 years. I was never really there for her much, and neither was anyone else.  She suffered at the hands of a narcissistic, cruel partner. A life of being swept under the carpet, abuse, neglect, mental torture and...

I'm going to make good on my promise to laying bare my heart and soul about the grief I'm still dealing with.
Friday, August 17, 2007
An unknown force pulls me down
Down into the forbidden spaces man has ever known
The floodgates...

For these two years, the loss of my dear friend whom I met when CNN did a story about how he was blogging about his battle with cancer at carepages.com and the thousands of people (like myself) were touched and inspired by his...