“I remember chunks of hair falling onto my pillow. My body transformed. It took a while to look in the mirror and see my naked face with no eyebrows, yellow eyes. Sometimes I wondered if I’d ever feel better. Then afterwards, it all hits you like a train and you sit there and literally think to yourself, ‘What the heck did I just go through and how in the world did we do it?’ Life after cancer is not easy. One side effect of chemo? Infertility.”
‘We said ‘I love you’ at 13. He didn’t care I wore a wig. He found me broken and put the pieces back together.’: Woman with Hodgkin’s lymphoma falls back in love with childhood crush, conceives after infertility predictions
‘I had absolutely no idea that was the last morning I would ever clean up after him.’
“We don’t realize just how meaningful a pair of combat boots by the door really are.”
It Is Not Your Job To Be A Decoration At The Beach
“I got the idea to do this project after being inundated with multiple ads every day enticing me with photos and emojis and offers to buy their product to get a ‘beach body’ or ‘bikini body’ or ‘summer body.'”
‘One day, I finally broke. I locked myself in the bathroom and cried alone until my eyes would barely open.’
“Maybe this is just what it’s like to have three kids,” I thought. “Maybe this is my new normal.”
After 2 Years, 6 Miscarriages, And 1 Failed Adoption, We Finally Have Our Son
“From the moment I saw his little tiny self laying in that bed, I knew—that was my baby.”
‘I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t think I could do it.’: Single mom graduates Harvard, goes from ‘anomaly to statistic to example’
“Evelyn, they said that because of you I wouldn’t be able to do this. Just know that I did this BECAUSE OF YOU.”
‘Please don’t let my baby die’: Dallas police officer comforts 3-month-old crash victim
“Please, God, not another one tonight — and especially with kids involved.”
‘I was killing myself. I didn’t want to die’: Man loses 140 POUNDS naturally after confronting his ‘addictive personality’
“I made an appointment to have a physical done. When I saw my lab results, I knew I was in trouble.”
Dear Newborn: I Used To Have Freedom, But I Didn’t Have You
“I had my time. I had my quiet. I had my daily showers. I had my tidy home. I had my control of the remote. But not one of those things really matters, because I have you.”
‘I knew I had to capture her before it was too late.’: Daughter photographs dying mother in wake of family’s ‘tremendous loss 6 months prior’
“You don’t realize how silent a room can be when one person stops breathing… it’s deafening.”
It’s Time Public Restrooms Accommodated Fathers Caring For Children
“It’s crazy to imagine, I know, but there are guys who take care of their kids too.”
‘I’m pleading, devastated, I’m going to have to miss the flight, then this man walks up, ‘How much is it?’
“I’m glad his platform allows others to see how one small act can change someone’s day or life.”
‘I remember thinking ‘I’ll be happy when I get married.’: Woman says ‘sometimes life is simply about appreciating the drive’
“Our trajectory completely changed with the appearance of two little blue lines.”
‘She said, ‘That IS you, and when you wake up, that’s what you’ll do.’: Spider-Man visits 10,000 sick children when they need him most
“The hospital said I couldn’t visit him, but the child’s mother asked me, ‘Do you work for the hospital? Or God?’ That question stopped me in my tracks. That led me to visiting my first child ever, by sneaking my suit in my backpack, changing in a bathroom close to his room, and rushing to his side.”
Dear Daughter, You Are Coming Of Age In An Interesting Time
“Things are available to you that were not before. Glass ceilings are being shattered. Long held prejudices that for years went unquestioned are being questioned, finally. Men who committed crimes against women are being called on it. A paradigm is starting to shift, albeit slowly.”
‘I fell to the floor and screamed’: Daughter rushes to marry in dad’s hospital room ‘while he was still with us’ after brain stroke
“I told him Taylor and I were finally married and that I knew he would be proud. At that point, I knew my dad wasn’t coming back.”
‘Lupus has given me the most self-confidence I’ve ever had.’
“I would wake up early in the morning with excruciating wrist pain, often so bad I couldn’t even lift myself out of bed.”
‘It’s been an absolute battle to get them to take their antibiotics. What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.’: Mom tries parenting hack, ‘There’s no recipe for parenting’
“We all know how frustrating it can be. You want nothing but for your child to get better! I knew I had to try this method but somehow disguise it.”
A Letter To My Daughters On The Day Of Their Adoption
“This day, this adoption day, is one of the happiest days of my life.”
‘Something lights up inside Grandma when she sings. For a moment, she’s her old self.’: Dementia-stricken grandma shares ‘most treasured memory’ with granddaughter through music
“There’s something spiritual about hearing my grandmother sing. The short half hour in my backyard with my grandmother will forever be my favorite.”
‘I weighed more than 3 of my friends combined!’: Woman loses 185 pounds naturally, vows to ‘never look back’
“When I was happy I ate, when I was sad I ate, when I was bored I ate. Food was an addiction for me.”
My Friends Threw Me A Gender Reveal Party To Celebrate Starting Testosterone
“Transitioning is an extremely difficult journey but having support definitely helps.”
‘I do most things halfway’: Mom’s candid admission as she’s ‘constantly interrupted by the small tribe of people I’ve created’
“There are a few things I do all the way.”
‘It was a complete shock how a healthy 2-year-old, never injured, never had anything wrong, can go from being happy and energetic to diagnosed with cancer.’
“With his strength, I will continue to stand back up a million times over again, because he will beat this, and he is going to make a difference in this world.”
‘Alec was looking at a cost of $1,300 a month.’: Mom raises awareness after son who couldn’t afford insulin dies
“He was rationing the little bit of insulin he had left to last until pay day.”