Empower Cancer Thrivers to Live Beyond Cancer

I turn 70 years old in August, something not all cancer patients get to experience.  Please join me in donating to to support someone you may or may not know by giving what you can.  

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Charity or Caring, I think its caring

Cancer doesn’t stop affecting someone’s life when treatment ends. The physical, mental, and emotional side effects often continue long after, forever changing relationships, hobbies, social life, work, and well-being. Epic Experience was founded with the goal of ensuring no one lives through these psychosocial burdens alone. To this end, Epic Experience programs help survivors rekindle hope, regain inner strength, and find community among those who understand what it means to have cancer.  

The pinnacle weeklong camp experience exemplifies our mission of empowering adult survivors to live beyond cancer. Knowing the need for support is great, we’ve expanded our offerings to include additional programs: in-person Regional Survivorship Days in cities across the country, a podcast covering a variety of cancer and survivorship-related topics, and ThriveVR, which gives a virtual camp experience to those in active treatment. 

 Cancer is expensive and anyone that has gone through cancer or other life threatening illness knows this. It is so difficult to ask for help and I know from first hand experience. When Michael was diagnosed we did everything that needed to be done, some might say above and beyond but this was our son. We had great doctors in Colorado but we wanted to know who was the best in the country. At the time that was Dr Einhorn in Indianapolis. We were living in CA at the time and Michael was in CO so all of the underlying costs of travel and so much more, fertility preservation and more. Why, because we wanted the best for our son. At the time in 2007 specialized testicular doctors were at a few cancer centers so we were lucky one was in CO.
We never asked for money to help with the travel or the treatments as we thought we got this. Then Michael needed surgery a few years later to remove the brain tumor that had been found before his cancer. We had been paying his cobra insurance for quite a while by then. 
In the end we lost our home due to the costs and a job move to CO. Would I do it all again? ABOLUTELY IN A HEART BEAT YES!!!! 
As I have learned from the time I founded Epic Experience in 2012 most people do not want to ask for help, but I believe we are here on earth to help others. If a friend asks me to donate to something or help someone financially I try to do it, every dollar counts. It is not true when people have told me "I can't give enough" If you read the article you will understand if we rally behind someone or a non profit with $10 it will ripple if we all come together and make an impact, maybe not millions but every bit of support will help and let someone know you care. 
No one asks for a life threatening illness but I have seen spirits lifted because people show they care in many ways, instead of walking away which unfortunately happens way too often. 
If you are so inclined to help survivors and thrivers experience a program at Epic Experience please donate $10 or whatever you can so we all continue to make an impact together! 
So lets change they way we look at helping others, its not charity its caring. 

Michael and Amanda and their sunshine baby