By God’s grace Like most women, I have a mammogram every year. When the nurse called me in for a second test, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. Through years of Bible study and prayer groups, I had learned one thing, and that is to give all your problems to God. The important [...]
Counting on angels I’m 70 years old. I lost my husband, Earl Mohr, to cancer March 7, 2006. His funeral was March 11. On June 7, 2006, I fell eight feet from a roof and broke my back. I was hospitalized for a week. In October they removed my body cast. I had some frailness [...]
Long journey with love In October 1973, I was operated on for uterine cancer. It was confined, and no treatment was required. My husband, George, died of lung cancer Oct. 5, 1996, a year and a half after being diagnosed. He was a heavy smoker. In my dad’s family, three of his six siblings had [...]
A ‘miracle’ Journey In 1986, I was fortunate to attend a seminar where a portion of the program was conducted by a local radiologist who suggested that women over the age of 50 should get a baseline mammogram so that subsequent mammograms could be compared to that first one. On my visit to my primary [...]
Three Love Stories Troy Schultz was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia on March 28, 2007. He bravely battled the disease for the next seven months, undergoing treatments and getting a bone marrow transplant. Troy passed away on Oct. 22, 2007. He was 33. With him every step of the way, as caregivers, as prayer partners, [...]
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Happy with heavenly family My mom, Marie Kube of Crofton, died Sept. 7, 2004. Whenever The Grand Island Independent ran a cancer story, the temptation to tell my story kept gnawing at me. I kept pushing that nagging thought away. I would have to think about too many memories … memories that I have tucked [...]
A lifesaving appointment By Edie Grim Five years ago November, I was told I had breast cancer. Being told you have cancer is not the end of the world, but it’s close. Even though my aunt on my mother’s side had breast cancer, my aunt on my dad’s side died at 42 of breast cancer [...]
New Normal, Wonderful Legacy By Kathleen Andersen I believe everyone has a story and the greatest story ever told is one’s own story. In June 1979, my husband, Gary, went to see Dr. Matthews for his yearly physical. The phone rang that same day, and the doctor said that Gary had leukemia. I remember looking [...]
Honor and remembrance By Jill Kimbrough We all have those main experiences in our lives that change the very person we are. One of these life-changing moments happened to me five years ago when my mother was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer. I was in 8th grade; my twin brothers were in 5th. When I [...]
My Cancer, My Life By Judith Webb Early in 2001 I had pain in my right arm that wouldn’t go away. I was afraid that I had dislocated something or it might be the beginning of rotator-cuff problems. My doctor noticed that I hadn’t had a mammogram in a few years, so I made an [...]
