In the coming weeks we will be taking steps toward re-opening, much like the rest of our community. However, because many of the people we serve are immuno-compromised, we are moving more slowly and with greater caution than other businesses.
Read MoreArt Changes the Brain and Heals the Heart
While my art didn’t always draw a straight line back to the death of my father from lung cancer, it was clearly an expressway to my emotional processing and a means to cope.
Read MoreMeet Our CUREative Art Contest Winners
The CUREative Art contest is open to any teen with a cancer connection, ages 13-19, who lives in the state of Wisconsin. The teen may be a cancer survivor, have a loved one with cancer, have experienced a death to cancer, or has been touched in some way in their life by cancer.
Read MoreAndy Gives Back in Memory of His Dad
“I believe in the power of cancer support.” We all have some sort of connection to cancer. One of the issues that takes place from my point of view is the word ‘cancer’ being labeled taboo. Not many people are comfortable speaking about cancer. My father was diagnosed with cancer in 2007 and fought for 3 years before losing his battle…
Read MoreGilda’s Saved Our Family Life
When my husband, Vince, a research physicist was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, we were instantly yanked out of our ordered, information driven, meaningful lives into pure chaos – no logic, minimal information, total disorientation. Thirteen months after his diagnosis, we had experienced two bone marrow transplants, early retirement, divestiture of 80k of our possessions, and…
Read MoreFinding Confidence at Gilda’s Club
In 2013, I was getting weaker, out of breath, losing mental ability, and having other strange symptoms. Little did I know I was dying of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and I also had an indolent cancer. I received chemo just in time. My doctor told me a year later, I had been just a few…
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