If you’re a CaringBridge user who has published a book about your health journey, we’d love to add it to our Bookshelf. Email us at bookshelf@caringbridge.org.
It was Julie Green’s hope that sharing the story of her breast cancer diagnosis in 2016 at age 33—invasive ductal carcinoma with a BRCA2 gene mutation—and her choice to focus on life over de...
Over the course of 2017, Ed Rossman lost his mom and his sister, and received a diagnosis of 4B oropharyngeal cancer (throat cancer). Running on empty as he prepared for chemo and radiation while...
When her husband was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, Kelly Fosso Rodenberg became a caregiver. She used CaringBridge to keep family and friends updated, and said she was surprised to discover ho...
After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer when she was 32, Caroline Wright of Seattle struggled to find the right kind of book to help her two young sons understand what was happening. So she d...
In the rush of medical appointments and questions from loved ones after the symptom of headaches turned into a brain-tumor diagnosis, Caroline Wright’s aunt pointed her toward CaringBridge in 20...
In March 2009, adventurers John Huston of Evanston, IL, and Tyler Fish of Ely, MN, stepped off the North American continent and onto the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean. Their goal was to be the fi...
On January 2, 2012, Minnesota police officer Frank Mackall was responding to a call for assistance from one of his partners. On the way, he hit a patch of black ice and crashed his squad car into a tr...
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in her early thirties, Heather McManamy felt like her life was crumbling. Her “normal” vanished―replaced with multiple surgeries and chemo treatm...
When Hope Stout was diagnosed with bone cancer at age 12, her parents prayed for a miracle. A miracle occurred, but not quite in the way anyone expected. Instead, Hope asked for something impossible: ...
