Cancer Grads
Nora McMahon
Kickin' It with Ovarian Cancer Grad, Nolan ...

What’s it like to experience ovarian cancer as a man? In this episode of Kickin’ It, Nora and Randalynn sit down with Nolan Stuckenschneider, a trans man, drag king and ovarian cancer grad. Nolan shares his ovarian cancer story, the healthcare challenges he faces as a trans man, and steps we can take toward inclusivity. We hope you enjoy this episode of Kickin’ It!

Kickin' It with Ovarian Cancer Grad, Nolan Stuckenschneider
Cancer Grads
Nora McMahon
Kickin' It Podcast with Ovarian Cancer Grad, ...

In the latest episode of the Kickin’ It podcast, Nora and Randalynn chat with ovarian cancer grad, Kim Simmons Emory. We discuss Kim’s long road to diagnosis, symptom awareness, Kim’s quest to find her blood sisters to share her cancer history as an adoptee, and much more. We hope you enjoy our chat with Kim!

Kickin' It Podcast with Ovarian Cancer Grad, Kim Simmons Emory
Cancer Grads
Nora McMahon
Kickin' It with Breast Cancer Grad, Rachel Park

Kickin’ It with Breast Cancer Grad, Rachel Park

Kickin' It with Breast Cancer Grad, Rachel Park
podcast
Nora McMahon
Kickin' It with Emily Garnett

October 13th is National Metastatic Breast Cancer Day. To honor this day, I am releasing a never before heard conversation between me and Emily Garnett, a beautiful, smart, fierce advocate for the MBC who passed away in March of this year from this unrelenting disease.

Kickin' It with Emily Garnett
Cancer Grads, Chemo
Nora McMahon
Kickin' It- Mai Linh Nguyen Achong

Ovarian Cancer Grad, Mai Linh

Kickin' It- Mai Linh Nguyen Achong

Breast Cancer as Fairy Tale

Breast Cancer as Fairy Tale

As October rolls along, with its endless pink ribbons and pep rallies for breast cancer awareness, Andersen’s old tale comes to mind as an apt metaphor for what it is like to live with breast cancer. If you go to one of the pep rallies, also known as “Race for the Cure” events put on by Komen, you may be left with the impression that breast cancer is an illness akin to a bad case of the flu. Go to the doctor, do a bit of treatment, maintain a super-duper attitude and voila! you are a “Survivor.” Good as new, bye-bye cancer.

Mom By Design

Mom By Design

In the diagnosis daze of figuring out my game plan – and looking ahead to what would be over a long year of chemotherapy, surgeries and radiation – which included a litany of tests before I had to start treatment, I heard her nonchalantly ask, "By the way…do you want children? You should decide that NOW.” What, in the next ten minutes???

If I DID want children, I would have to see a fertility expert ASAP to either freeze my eggs or embryos before chemotherapy would temporarily shut down my ovaries. All I could think was, “When the hell am I going to fit in THAT appointment??”

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A vag laser for better post-cancer sex. Does it work? MonaLisa Touch Review.

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A vag laser for better post-cancer sex. Does it work? MonaLisa Touch Review.

“Daammn, I can’t wait to tap that A$$…when you are ready.”

I was in the midst of chemo treatment, laid up on the couch, bald, no eyebrows, fingernails falling off, my breasts cut off and my husband magically knew exactly what I needed to hear. The perfect balance between showing he still found me sexy and simultaneously NOT pressuring me to have sex. 

It took several months, but I have finally finished my three MonaLisa Touch® Vaginal Laser treatments, with to goal of reducing dryness and restoring elasticity caused by medical menopause.

Here is my honest, in-depth, and funny video review.

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MonaLisa Touch® Q&A

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MonaLisa Touch® Q&A

Would you shoot a laser up your lady bits?

How about if someone told you it might improve your sex life after breast cancer treatments? 

A few years ago, I heard about the MonaLisa Touch® Laser Treatment and remember thinking judgingly, “How desperate would someone have to be to voluntarily let your vagina be attacked with a laser?”

I soon found out.

Carpe Scrotiem

Carpe Scrotiem

Our friend and fellow Cancer Grad Justin, from A Ballsy Sense of Tumor, discusses the trials and tribulations of his diagnosis of Stage 2 nonseminoma testicular cancer over on his blog. Recently, he wrote a great piece about tactics in overcoming the awkwardness of discussing testicular cancer with other men, its symptoms and the importance of self exams. 

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