Resource Roundup: Late Summer 2024

Resource Roundup: Late Summer 2024

PMP Pals Resource Roundup: Late Summer 2024 We're always scanning medical journals, practitioner magazines, cancer-focused blogs, and our partner websites for resources about this rare disease. Depending on where you are on your appendix cancer journey, you may be...

Meet Up’24: Scottsdale Necessities & Niceties

Meet Up’24: Scottsdale Necessities & Niceties

Meet Up'24: Scottsdale Necessities & Niceties Travel can be a bit prickly. Thanks to your input, we've gathered up a few details to help you enjoy your time in Scottsdale. Spend more time relaxing and getting to know your Pals, and less time searching for whatever...

Resource Roundup: Summer 2024

Resource Roundup: Summer 2024

We're always scanning medical journals, practitioner magazines, cancer-focused blogs, and our partner websites for resources about this rare disease. Depending on where you are on your appendix cancer journey, you may be searching for information about current...

Setting Our Minds Straight

Setting Our Minds Straight

We don’t necessarily need a designated month to remind us how important emotional resilience is to our quality of life. Keeping a clear mental perspective affects our overall wellness, as well as our relationships with family and friends. But, it can be hard to...

Who’s Manju?

Who’s Manju?

Each year, SSO/ACT extends the Gabriella Graham Patient Advocacy Award “to an individual or patient advocacy organization that has provided support and hope to patients and families facing cancers that are often treated with a regional treatment approach.” Pals...

PALS ONLINE: Jamie V.

PALS ONLINE: Jamie V.

Many of you may recognize Jamie V. as one of the “Pals Angels,” a HOPE Zoom moderator on Wednesday at 6pET/3pPT. She does a lot of volunteering for our group like mentoring other patients 1-on-1, assisting with graphic design (she helped with the 5K logo),...

Send in Your Gut-Sensitive Recipes

Send in Your Gut-Sensitive Recipes

We all know that feeling - the Dreaded Belly Bomber - following an all-too-good-tasty meal. It's bittersweet and frustrating. But what are we to do about a sensitive gut, the by-product of a transitioning gastro system post-surgery?   Some of us get a team...

Caregivers Guide Us Back to Life

Caregivers Guide Us Back to Life

Words cannot express the gratitude we have for our caregivers. Spouses, partners, siblings, parents, children, and friends step in to help us through challenging times laden with heavy physical demands and psyche-wrenching emotional waves. By their simple acts of...

Pals in the Kitchen Cookbook 2022 Holiday Edition

Pals in the Kitchen Cookbook 2022 Holiday Edition

Welcome to our first cookbook ever — Pals in the Kitchen Holiday Edition 2022, A Compilation of our Favorite Holiday Recipes. Pals from all over the globe shared their grandma’s secret recipes, family heirlooms, traditional mainstays, and special occasion deliciousness in a gesture of solidarity. We share them here with you to bring you comfort and connection. After all, we have much to be grateful for this holiday season.

Pals Profile: Advocate, Marathoner, Fundraiser Lindsay B.

Pals Profile: Advocate, Marathoner, Fundraiser Lindsay B.

In December 2021, 6 months shy of my 40th birthday (and right after completing my 4th TCS NYC Marathon), I heard the three words that nobody ever expects to hear: “You have cancer.”

While in surgery to remove a large, complex ovarian cyst, they discovered a tumor in my appendix and what they thought might be mucin in my abdomen. My appendix, right ovary, and right fallopian tube were removed. Biopsies confirmed the tumor was a rare, stage IV appendix cancer called Low-Grade Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasm (LAMN).