Testimonies: How I coped with my parent's cancer 16 Articles

by L. D. Faison

Surviving Cancer: The Young & The Old Six years ago, my grandmother, the mother who raised me, was diagnosed with breast cancer. When she told me, I cried inside because I knew how hard she had worked in her life. She ...read more

by Fran Frazier

My mother followed Dad everywhere during their years together: she followed him to an oil town in Western Pennsylvania, she followed him to Europe for his dream vacation, she followed him to his doctor appointments and ch...read more

by Barb Hopkins

Mom died of cancer 24 years ago. July 13, 1984. It was a Friday the 13th and I was 13 years old, but believe it or not, that day was not the worst of my young life. The worst day had occurred a couple of weeks earlier. ...read more

by Christy V

I knew in my heart that my dad was going to die even though we tried to stay positive for him. He knew it too but how do you accept something like death without at least giving it a fight? He was diagnosed with pancreati...read more

by Angela S. Young

In March of 2003, I lost my 40 year old brother to complications from diabetes. My parents were devastated by his loss even as their faith carried them through. I think the stress may have escalated my mother's ill-healt...read more

by Tabitha Easley

I received a phone call on an April evening in 1998. My mother's voice was on the other end of the line. Little did I know this call would forever change my life. I knew something wasn't right just by the tone she was usin...read more

by Anne Brown

How I coped with my parent's cancer Dad died in 1995 of lung cancer. It still hurts and I miss him very much. Mom and Dad smoked all of my life and I hated it. After we married, my husband and I spent many nights an...read more

by Mel Gaetano

In June 2006, we (my husband and I) received a call no child wants to receive.your mother has cancer. To give a brief history, my husband was raised as an only child by his single mother in Cleveland, Ohio. Needless to s...read more

by Patrick Sills

Back in the fall of 1995, my wife and I were vacationing in Arizona. I decided to give my parents a call to let them know we were in Phoenix. My mother had news for me as well: My father had gone in for his yearly physical...read more

by Patricia Polk

My father was diagnosed with colon and bladder cancer in December 1998. He refused to have radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. I was scared to death, I did not want my father to die. I did everything that I could to ke...read more

by JAC das Kind

When my children were born, the first thought that I had was "I only hope I could be half the father that my dad was." My father was the most important person in my life. He taught me so many things about life. Dad taug...read more

by Zanda Blake

How I coped with my Dad's Cancer When I was 39, my beloved Dad whom was 63, was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. I was devastated. Before he entered the hospital, he was not feeling well and I was very frightened to...read more

by Kim Sharpe

Personally, I don't think that its ever easy to cope when your parent is diagnosed with cancer. My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer when I was 13 and she would pass away of it when I was 14. This whole experience ...read more

by Jessica Alix

The title for this should currently read "How I AM coping with my parent's cancer." My dad was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer back in 98 while I was living out of state. I was instantly scared. My first thought was to ju...read more

by lisamig

I would not say I coped with my mother in laws cancer so much as I flew by the seat of my pants at the time. How can you cope with a situation you can barely comprehend let alone think about? When you do not know what the ...read more

by life rodriguez

My mother was diagnosed with Lymphoma when I was 17 years old. It was my Senior year in high school. I had an extremely active social life, dating, friends, acquaintances and working part time. My mother had just began a n...read more