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I was diagnosed with breast cancer on Christmas Eve, 2007, at 4:10 PM. I began to go to Dr. Ingrid A. Meyer, the Director of Breast Cancer at Vanderbilt. Every visit, Dr. Meyer would share a childhood cancer statistic with me. I had no idea until she told me breast...

As we delve deeper into the issue of childhood cancer, it's crucial to understand the variety of types that affect our children. The following chart provides detailed information on different forms of childhood cancer. Armed with knowledge, we can be more effective in...

Dancing for Gold® Over the last few years, mothers of children would always comment they wished someone would dance for only childhood cancer. After two years of praying about dancing for childhood cancer, God dropped the title in my heart, Dancing for Gold®. The gold...

Growing up, I never heard of a child diagnosed with cancer. Not a day goes by now that I don't hear of someone newly diagnosed with cancer, whether a child, adolescent, or adult. What should be uncommon has become a common occurrence in the world we are living in....

On New Year's Day, 2017, Kendall James' parents, Shawn and Kendra James, got the news no parent would ever want to hear, "Your child has cancer!" Kendall was sent to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN, and diagnosed with Embryonal...

How Book for Hope Helps Families with Children Battling Cancer   Book for Hope became a 501 (c) (3) childhood cancer organization in January 2015. The mission statement of Book for Hope is to raise childhood cancer awareness, financially assist families with a...

Everyone Has a Dream Everyone has a dream, not everyone’s may be the same. If I were asked what my dream was it would be to tell one person how unknowingly important childhood cancer awareness is. Because when you tell one person that person tells another person who...

2016 was supposed to be a great year for myself and my daughter. My mother invited us on a road trip for spring break and I gladly took her up on the offer.  We went off to New Orleans for good food and some fun time, deciding to break it up and stop in Memphis...

Facing an obstacle course in life can be difficult. You jump over the hurdles of pain, crawl under the struggles that you encounter, and climb up the rock wall of life. I believe obstacles are in our lives to challenge us to grow as a person.  We get to learn how to...