Grief

Browse our previous Cancer Unwrapped writing contest winners

we planned our future, but then the present came crashing down

How do you break the news to a nine-year-old that her little brother is dying? I am Victor's sister. I grew up in ...

Truth and Triumph

A loss is something that everyone has to deal with at one point in time. For most, it's during their adulthood ...

Strongest Parents

Life in the Fisher household was just like any other family. My mom Liz was a stay home mom, and my dad Bill ...

Cancer Can't Take It All

At that time in my life, I had never seen such courage through heartbreak. Not once had I witnessed someone ...

Losing My Mother to Pancreatic Cancer

When I was four, my parents sat me down and had a conversation with me. A conversation that at the time didn't ...

No One Fights Alone

About a year and a half ago, my oldest brother, Taylor, the healthiest guy I've ever seen in my entire life, was ...

It Is What It Is

It is what it is. A short, five word adage that simply means live life in the moment, accept the hand you've been ...

My Superhero

I always thought of my dad as this invincible superhero who could defeat anything in his path, and protect me from ...

For My Dad

Searching through the foil covered casseroles that infested my fridge, a yearning for a freshly cooked meal ...

Life, Death, and Probability; Lessons Learned from a Mother with Cancer

The world we live in is undeniably deadly; if one crunches the numbers, one discovers how everything in our daily ...

What Cancer taught me

It's hard for me to know where to start with my experience with cancer. I thought I could go on for pages but when ...