Meet the remarkable patients who have found ways to add life to their days – to live every day to the fullest. I hope the stories are encouraging and meaningful for other patients and their families.
Share your story with us! Write to us about your journey or that of a loved one making the most of every day. Seizing the days takes many forms, so think outside the box about the many ways to enrich your life.
At every turn, patients who are seriously ill lose control of their bodies. Disease wreaks havoc on humans – lack of appetite, muscle wasting, depression, weight loss – the list goes on. And if all that weren’t enough, the treatment for the disease is often times equally insulting to the human form. Chemotherapy causes hair […]
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll, American Writer and Clergyman
The honesty, candor and significance of conversations among the living can pale in comparison to those among the dying. I am repeatedly struck by my patients’ inclinations to communicate with their friends and loved ones in ways they never did before they got sick.
