I Lost a Friend to Cancer

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...

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...

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...

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...

When I was in grade school I met a girl who was the sweetest person I'd ever met. I think we were in 1st or 2nd grade. I didn't have many friends. I was the "fat kid" who got made fun of alot. When she moved to our school we...

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...

We only knew each other a few weeks but what we were going through made a strong bond between us even though we didn't understand each other, he was Danish and I Icelandic.
I was receiving radiation therapy and starting chemo therapy...

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...

I am so blessed at this point in my life. All my prayers are being answered. Everynight when I pray my prayers become smaller and smaller because day by day *GOD* continues to answer them. I know he is there, I know he is working in my...

Last Friday my good friend, Jill, died after dealing with cancer for only a year. She was only 46. 
Jill had a wonderfully obnoxious laugh that was way too loud and blasty. She had a great sense of humor, was sarcastic...

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...

Why?
Written by: Aly Ahrens
 
We were never great friends
Just always said "hi
Now I miss her
and have to ask why?
Why this 14 year old girl
So full of life
Why did she have to die so early
Amidst all the...

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 miss my friend and I still feel guilty about not seeing her right before she passed.  She had battled cancer more than half of her life.  I met her in high school and we became friends after we starting working at a retail...

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...

well i didnt really lose my friend, she was my moms friend but she was like another mother to me until she moved away a few years ago. anyway she had lukemia. and i was named after her..my middle names elizabeth and her name was...

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...

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...