by Director | May 31, 2019 | #maggiesbrightside, Cancer, Community, Diagnosis
I knew Maggie was a force of nature. A force of fierceness and humor, of insight and brilliance, of dance and joy. I knew she was doing an incredible amount of work by starting Maggie’s Brightside and turning it into something really legit. As I read her blog posts...
by Admin | Feb 4, 2019 | Diagnosis, Stage IV
Today’s guest post was written by by Emily Garnett. It is brought to you by our Sponsor, Camp Sangamon. Camp Sangamon provides funding for Maggie’s Brightside as a Super Generous Sponsor. Furthermore, if a Maggie Card holder has a son age 9 to 16, they will receive 5%...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Sep 29, 2017 | Breast Cancer, Clinical Trial, Diagnosis, Doctors, Maggie Card, Medication, Metastatic Disease
Now is the time to soften. I came to this conclusion as I lay on the mat in the first yoga class I had taken in a million years. I had been meaning to try a class at SoulShine Power Yoga, a Maggie’s Brightside Sponsor, for a while now, but as luck would have it, I...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Aug 8, 2016 | Breast Cancer, Cancer, Diagnosis, Metastatic Disease, Stage IV
I’ve been in a funk lately. I have this pit in my stomach that just won’t go away. At first I thought it was because I published a blog post about racism and my support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The post was live for about 4 days and invoked a...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Jul 17, 2016 | Cancer, Diagnosis, Environmental Factors
Background: I work for the Department for Children and Families and we have been, until April of this year, temporarily located at the Global Foundries/IBM Site. This week we got this email: All, Please read this important message from Commissioner Chen! To staff who...
by Maggie Van Duyn | Mar 25, 2016 | Cancer, Diagnosis, Metastatic Disease, Stage IV
Let’s talk about Metastatic Disease. I look healthy. I look better than I did a few months ago. Maybe it’s that my hair is growing back. Maybe it’s that I’m not on any Chemotherapies right now. Maybe it’s from the California sun. Whatever...
