Trying to Understand
Exploring and learning about life

Please join us to celebrate the life of Paige Dersham Wednesday June 12 11am-1pm Being a teacher was her heart and soul, and Steck was...

Paige had written a few words to finish this blog. "I was so naive when I started this blog about my cancer journey. In my heart I...

I have never been a goal setter. I mean I have not been aimlessly going through life but I don’t sit down and think about goals and how...

I would like to wake up for just one day and have a normal day with no reminders of my cancer. Just one day. I am not asking to be rid of...

I am mid way through my second treatment cycle of a phase 1 study drug, living the lab rat life. This new treatment drug is called...

Here is another of the things we don’t think about when we do not have cancer or some other serious medical issue - what it does to a...

Thinking about life with cancer falls on a continuum. On one side you have hope and optimism (Pinkie Pie) and on the other side despair...

I don't feel like I have any words with writing right now. Feeling to glooming and wore out I guess. It is out there looming The...

I think we have established how much cancer sucks, it most definitely does. I feel like it just sucks more everyday. It is not just...

You hear about people who have terminal cancer and all the things they accomplish before they die. They travel to all the places they...