I had my own complete life external to cancer. I also had my life within the constant reality of cancer.
Kim Johnson
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Kim was a caregiver for her sister while she battled stage 4 Hodgkin Lymphoma for nearly five years, from diagnosis through an autologous transplant. She turned her experience into change and has since become an activist in finding a cure for cancer. Kim has worked in politics and assisted in the passing of numerous legislative pieces impacting patients with cancer and their families. She is an activist in the field of oncology, nursing and beyond. Additionally, she is a volunteer and champion for a cure with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Campaign. Kim has shared her experiences with cancer as a contributor with Cure and through public speaking engagements throughout the United States.
Articles by Kim Johnson
Shock is a typical feeling that comes with a cancer diagnosis. How do you overcome it?
After being a cancer caregiver, it's important to step back and gain perspective.
As a caregiver, it is crucial that you learn to ask for help.
After being a cancer caregiver, it is important to take time to recover and have hope for the future.
During cancer, one person can take on different roles and serve different purposes.
If cancer gave us one gift in life, it was the friendships formed along the way.
Reflections on a night to celebrate and honor those affected by cancer.
Although hospitals can be like a second home, there is really no place like home
The goal of the Dempsey Center is to help all who were touched by cancer.
Stepping away from a caregiver role does not mean I care any less.
The struggle to not lose yourself in cancer if hard enough, but doing it while caregiving has its own set of complexities.
I gained perspective about the words used when people talk about cancer.
Living life after the cure and coping with the complications of cancer
Immunotherapy agents are promising in the treatment of cancer, but also come with some awful side effects.
Life after cancer has its own physical and emotional challenges.
After losing someone to cancer, people may need continued support.
We can all learn some things from an extraordinary young man.
Make an effort to change the way you think when you can't change the situation
Remembering that you are just as important even if you aren't the one with cancer
Appreciating the benefits of radiation, but still hoping for better advancements in an evolving field.
Pressing play on my life after pausing it to focus on my sister
Looking back on a cancer diagnosis years later
No matter how hard being a caregiver was, I would chose it again a million times over.
Accepting what is fact and being OK with the reality of an awful illness
Apreciating all the positives amongst the disease of cancer
Taking the good with the bad and living life despite cancer
We must remember what happened but also move forward.
Changing the perception of what it means to be a survivor
Taking time to show apprecitaion and graitude to the giants of oncology and all that they do
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