Perhaps the hardest thing a spouse can do is become a caregiver for their other half. This may sound absurd since we all agreed to "for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health 'til death do us part."
Still, the task is not easy. I've been a caregiver, and I've been a patient. I believe being a caregiver is the more difficult task.
Throughout our marriage, my wife Melanie and I...
Oligodendroglioma survivor Mike Givens has been a dedicated fundraiser and philanthropist for many years. But it wasn't until after his second...
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Nearly eight years ago, I rang the bell at MD Anderson, signifying the end of my stage II, large b-cell, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma treatment.
Shortly after Marshall and Ashley Lauen celebrated their wedding, Marshall started feeling fatigue, losing weight and was experiencing trouble...
The scan that showed Pamela Bowman's broken pelvis -- the painful result of an afternoon of ice skating with her grandchildren -- also revealed...
Diana Chow calls herself a woman with options even though she has stage IV high-grade serous ovarian cancer. She gives credit for this positive...
"You can't let a problem contain you. You have to contain the problem." That's Donald Lowd's motto.
So the Air Force veteran...