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April 19, 2020Kicking off National Volunteer Week 2020
That simple act of helping changes lives every day. It is essential to our way of life and you used it to build YACC. Thank you.
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April 14, 2020
I choose to learn through…
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was just on the other side of a bone marrow transplant and a one-month stay in the intensive care unit on one of those ventilators we hear so much about every day. For 23 days, a ventilator pushed air into my damaged lungs.
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April 01, 2020
Following Dora’s lead
Geoff writes about how we’re taking care of YACC and YACCers this week.
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March 24, 2020COVID-19: Constants and changes, danger and opportunity
“Every area of Young Adult Cancer Canada (YACC) has changed in the last week in some way. Here’s how we’re moving forward in the meantime.”
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September 25, 2019
Geoff’s blog: Look what you did! The YAC Prime Study findings
The power of connection is one of the many questions we had as we built the YAC Prime Study with Dr. Sheila Garland. Does being in connection with other young adults who “get it” matter? If so, how?
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August 28, 201819 things you didn’t know about my time in ICU
I played Risk the night before I went to hospital with a fever and an unknown infection in my Hickman catheter. And I won! I took over the world the […]
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August 24, 2017We’re one month away from the 18th Annual Climb!
We’ve had another tough run at YACC this year, losing amazing people in our community like Justin, Megan, Stephenie, Jody, and others. I’m climbing in memory of them, and to give YACC more resources to help their cancer brothers and sisters.
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April 04, 2017Treason: “He’s a crook” (Part 2)
Despite the goodwill of charitable supporters and the belief that “it’s a great cause,” the trust and belief we charities are afforded on the revenue side is sharply contrasted with the treasonous accusations levied on the expense side of our organizations.
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Trust: “It’s a great cause” (Part 1)
We are excited to share our annual report for our 2015-16 year. It was a year of continued impact on young adults facing the end of their lives just as they’re starting. It was a year of pressure and intensity. It was a year we finished stronger than we started.
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November 29, 2016
We failed.
Failing to provide Stephenie with the connection she craves is our failure. This is not cancer’s doing; she had time when she was well, we didn’t have a program with spots available for her during that time. That stings in a way we haven’t felt before.
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September 20, 2016I was a miracle and a mess.
“My first Climb wasn’t a climb, it was a five-step walk from my hospital bed to a couch in the family room.”
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June 16, 2016Choked to death: A personal perspective on dying
Since my childhood I’ve had a curiosity about death. What happens when we die? Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about it? My personal views on life after death continue to […]
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