On September 23rd, we headed to the hospital because I was in labor with our son, Wyatt. Finally, contractions had started! Once we arrived they put me on monitors and told me my contractions were too irregular. They called my doctor and he said to do an ultra-sound to check on the baby and see [...]
There are some things we just don’t want to hear. Some things we think we’ll never have to face. So I knew something like this was happening when the doctor who’d just examined me returns with another doctor to repeat what the first one just did. “Just want a second opinion.”…… He wasn’t asking for [...]
My only brother James who sadly lost his life to liver cancer. He had a true fighting spirit. We as a family do not realize how much James really suffered in his months before he died. He fought the battle with Faith. Doctors told us he would be dead within 6 months after being diagnosed [...]
By Stephanie Romanski For the past couple of days (January 12th/13th) I’ve been working on this site for the paper. It’s the sort of “home” for the year-long (and a bit) series of cancer stories written by people in our community. It’s been a beautiful series, and photographer Scott Kingsley and columnist George Ayoub put [...]
