I’m going on 12 years of surviving a terminal cancer diagnosis. I have to let that sink in sometimes. I consider myself very fortunate that the aggressive treat…

When October started, I began to see posts from friends on Facebook about something that for many years people didn’t talk openly about. October is Pregnancy an…

As I lay in the dark, my mind reeling from the past events of the week, I rolled over and watched my husband sleeping fitfully. His breathing didn’t have the rh…

“You’re so brave“, “You’re the bravest person I know” are a couple of phrases I hear, or really any cancer patient hears more often than not. We often get calle…

I never in a million years dreamed that I would be diagnosed with a terminal and rare cancer called mesothelioma at age 36, let alone one that was a result of a…

Heather von St. James was diagnosed with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma shortly after the birth of her daughter, Lily Rose. This is a rare type of cancer that o…

Heather von St. James was diagnosed with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma shortly after the birth of her daughter, Lily Rose. This is a rare type of cancer that…

A couple of years after finishing my treatments for malignant pleural mesothelioma, I felt like I needed to do something to learn more about my disease and asbe…

You have a cancer called “mesothelioma.“ Those were the words that changed my life on November 21, 2005. Up until that moment, I had never really heard of it, I…

Heather von St. James was diagnosed with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma shortly after the birth of her daughter, Lily Rose. This is a rare type of cancer that…