Print Issue: MBC: LEGACY STORIES

MBC: LEGACY STORIES, Oct / Nov 2022, Vol 8, No 5, 101 pages

Each breast cancer awareness season, we shine a big spotlight on those in the breast cancer community living with Stage IV breast cancer in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. This year we are proud to present our 7th annual Metastatic Breast Cancer issue with the theme “Legacy Stories.” We are focusing on what "legacy" means to our community, be it the past (the legacy we carry from another), the present (the legacy we create by how we live today) or the future (how we want to be remembered).⁠ We received an outpouring of incredible stories on this theme that are important for all of us to read, whether you or someone you love has been diagnosed with MBC, or if you are simply looking for hopeful stories to help you navigate life’s challenges.

Cover Star & Guest Editor: Diana Keen

Contents:

Lines a poem by Amy Austin | Tulips by Alyssa Dickey | Fighting for Equality in an Unequal Society by Jamil Rivers | How My Diagnosis Transformed Into "Live the Fuck Out of Life" by Bethany Webb | You and I a poem by Ashley Blair Doyle | Impossible by Diana Keen | A Three-Prong Legacy Effort by Ann Camden | A Letter to Myself by Annie Musso | A Miss to Live by Camille Herrera | Breathing My Way Through by Cheri Henderson | The Place a poem by Dawn Oswald | A Simple Prayer by Elizabeth Sharp | One Little Moment at a Time Adds Up by Alison Rash | Carrying Nalie's Legacy Forward by Stephanie Seban | I Want by Holly Taylor | My Life, and Being Wrong by Stephanie Millett | The Grand Paring a poem by Megan Piñon | Conversations About Death by Kim Angell | Go, Soldiers, Go! by Mardi Kaplan | This Diagnosis Will Send Ripples Into the Future by Marla Pedersen | The Present Moment: The Way We Live Today by Abigail Johnston | Abide With Me a poem in memory of Lisa Laudico

PLUS: Tell Your Story Writing Prompt by April Stearns

Cover image by Missy Peters, Breast Cancer Portrait Project