Trying to Understand
Exploring and learning about life

Photos taken by me and and mostly Cherie It started with a simple surgery and turned into a cancer diagnosis. I spent a lot of December...

I know that all the multitude of people at UCHealth who have supported me will in all likelihood not read this but I need to acknowledge...

The last few months have been weird (understatement?), and so outside what my life usually looks like. six and a half months of surgery,...

I was told early in my diagnosis that I would go through the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. I...

I recently spent three days in the hospital for an infection. They don’t tell you another aspect of cancer is all the side illnesses and...

I have been on medical leave pretty much since December and it will run through the end of the school year, then I am retired. 32 plus...

I love playing games. I always have. I have very seldom had anyone to play with. Even as a kid I would get an occasionally complex little...

Looking at my own mortality has been a ride I’d rather not have taken. But I did and I am. So it feels like I am looking at Paige’s Life...

As a person with cancer I hate these things, that doesn’t mean others do but maybe think before you speak to someone with cancer, even...

I was recently diagnosed with cancer. It was found during a surgery for something else. I quickly had a second surgery to remove the...