Stories of Hope

Larry and Rose Jones: Almost romantic
It was just another ordinary trip to the doctor’s office. It was time for my annual physical which included a PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) test to screen for prostate cancer. Dr. Borrelli told me the levels from my test were too high, and he...
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Sue Hooley: Our Journey
What can I say? Wasn’t it my journey through cancer? Certainly, I was the one with the diagnosis of breast cancer. I was the one undergoing the biopsies and then the double mastectomy, the reconstructive surgery and chemotherapy. But in spite of...
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Karen Stump: Melanoma stage 4 - survivor
One day in April five years ago was like any other day. Putting lotion on my face I felt a lump in my left cheek. My husband Dennis felt it too. A routine doctor’s appointment the next week confirmed it was a cyst but I needed to see a plastic...
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Dale Stutzman: Walking miracle after stage 4 lymphoma
My cancer journey with Stage 4 large cell Lymphoma began October 21, 2004 while visiting family in North Carolina. I didn’t feel well, and the following week when my wife, Ethel and I headed back home to Indiana, I decided I would go see my family...
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Hola: Mi nombre es Ana Maria y soy sobreviviente de cáncer de seno.
Hola: Mi nombre es Ana Maria y soy sobreviviente de cáncer de seno. Deseo compartir contigo mi testimonio de vida. Era el último dia del año 2006. Estaba con familiares y amigos disfrutando de una rica cena. Esperabamos censiosos las 12 de la...
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Glen Mast: Pancreatic cancer
Never give up It was a typical day, February 21, 2007, but it didn’t remain that way. I took Edna, my wife, to her doctor in Kendallville for a routine visit. Before I knew it, I was the patient. I had been taking Prevacid for abdominal pain, but...
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Roberta Knopfer: Two time survivor of metastatic melanoma
When I meet new people they often ask me “Why did you come to Goshen?” I spent most of my adult life in New Orleans and was enjoying life with my friends and my dogs when in 2005, Hurricane Katrina came along. When JoAnne Yoder, my best friend...
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Peggy Davis: Life after lung cancer
“Two packs a day for the last 30 years.” Looking back, that was my answer to the doctor who asked me over eight years ago “do you smoke." Since both my parents had died of heart problems, I was more concerned about my heart than my lungs. O...
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John Scott: Survivor of stage 3 lung cancer
My start with stage 3 squamous cell lung cancer wasn’t very pleasant. Since childhood, I had a history of pneumonia. So when I had back pain and started coughing, I figured I had pneumonia again. I went to my doctor and he gave me a prescription...
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Ruth Brant: Two time survivor
I know first hand the importance of family and friends when undergoing cancer treatment. I am a two time survivor, having beaten cancer twice: endometrial and non Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells....
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Susan Geist Smith: Survivor of stage 4 mantle cell lymphoma
I’m not special. Many of us have been on this journey. Cancer is all around us, different types, different outcomes, but a word that puts fear into the hearts of all it touches. A cancer diagnosis does not make life un-certain, it just reminds us...
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