Anyways…since the month of April is Cancer Control month, we saw it fitting the this month’s channel theme day should be all about cancer.

And it’s all about cancer today indeed, as Marijke of Help My Hurt hosts.

Though everyone came up with their best entries, my personal pick is of Pink Ribbon Review’s Karen Lynch.

In a post entitled There Are Survivors Among Us, Karen wrote:

That photograph? That’s me, not even one year after my initial treatment ended. That’s me, with a pink ribbon on my sleeve. That’s where I wear my heart, always have, always will. That’s me.

That day? I was with my husband and my children enjoying a perfect afternoon. We were at a picnic and my children were deeply involved in a craft project. My husband was snapping photos. I was enjoying my kids and my husband and thinking about how lucky I was to be spending the day with them all. How blessed I was to be able to see their busy bodies and smiling faces. I was thinking about how happy I was to be alive.

Thank you very much Karen for sharing your story to us. I am pretty sure that many readers out there will be inspired by you.

Theme day is all about cancer. Hope on over at Help My Hurt.

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Health and Wellness Channel Theme Day Is All About Cancer

During Cancer Control Month, we honor cancer victims and survivors, raise awareness of the impact cancer has on our citizens, and underscore our commitment to battling this deadly disease.

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States, and we remain committed to making the medical advances necessary to prevent and treat this disease.

Scientists and medical professionals have made great progress in developing innovative treatments, improving diagnostic tools, and increasing our understanding of cancer. These advances have helped people with cancer live longer, healthier lives.

Cancer Control Month is April — and the word the first comes to mind (each time I think of cancer) is hope. HOPE. There should always be hope, me thinks. Despite the difficulties in finding the cure, despite the difficulties in surviving cancer.

The official website of the American Cancer Society has a little corner called Stories of Hope. Have you found that yet? If not, check it out. Right Now.

Last week, I found out about Hope Lodge. What a fitting name to accommodate (for free!) cancer patients seeking treatment away from home.

Honestly, when I found out about that wonderful service (Hope Lodge), I was really deeply touched (still is). That is really a lot of help – in more ways than one – to cancer patients.

Speaking of Hope Lodge, I found this story of a prostate cancer survivor who found HOPE in Hope Lodge.

It took several weeks for a spot to open up; until then, Learned stayed in a hotel. Although he joined a local gym and even managed to find some tennis partners, he still felt isolated.

“I was in a strange city where I knew no one and I was by myself and my treatment was 15 minutes a day and that was the only thing I had to do,” he recalls. “It was very lonely.”

That all changed when Learned moved into Hope Lodge for the final 3 weeks of his treatment.

“Everybody there was so friendly,” he says. “It’s an incredible place.”

Read on. Thank God for such places, making one’s journey to survival, bearable.

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Finding Hope in Cancer