Sarcoma Survivor Stories
Now I’m in Your Corner
by Becki Brown
When a malignant tumor is found on your 10th birthday, you have few stories to share about your life before “the big C.” As a fourth grader, I enjoyed playing outside with my friends and battling my little brother in video games. But that changed when my parents explained to me on a cold November evening that I had osteosarcoma (a type of bone cancer) of the rib.
Ten Years of Learning
by Heather Hall
I celebrate a milestone this year. It is my 10-year anniversary. Not one I share with a particular man. It is mine alone to revel in. I celebrate a decade as a cancer survivor. Ten years ago, I finished a wickedly aggressive treatment for bone cancer, traded my femur and knee for titanium, and started on a very different course from the one I planned after my recent college graduation.
