I was asked by Missouri Baptist to be a speaker for their Art of Survivorship night back in October 2015. Here goes my first time to speak publicly about Cancer and how I feel about it. Survivorship…Surviving…coping Liza’s way. I find myself jumping into the deep end,...
My stomachless journey started with a phone call. I don’t not remember the date, but I remember the call. It was from our youngest sister telling me through tears that she had breast cancer. At that time I had no way of knowing that a few months later there would be a...
After Heather’s mother passed away at age 44 of gastric cancer, and losing her grandfather to this disease, she wanted to do everything in her power to be proactive about her health risks, especially for her husband and daughter. At the age of 30, she was referred...
In October last year, I met with a genetics department to find out if I had inherited the CDH1 mutation. If somebody had told me back then, that in less than twelve months I would be living a stomachless-life, I wouldn’t have believed them. Since that very first...
I’m glad to be a part of this wonderful group of survivors. I’m wondering if I might be one of the longest-running on this journey, at 61. At age 32, in 1990, I was diagnosed with stage 3+ adenocarcinoma of the stomach. At that time, the CDH1 genetic mutation my...