“Gratitude in the Storm
When Not Dying Is Enough to Keep Fighting”
What’s it about?
There’s no guarantee that life won’t dish out unrelenting blows in quick succession. Author and patient advocate Margo Wickersham’s life-threatening cancer diagnosis and treatment, her aging mother’s rapid decline, several back-to-back losses, and the turbulent ups and downs of a demanding job left her dangerously close to empty—all during an unprecedented year.
What do you do when life pulls you in all directions at once? Somehow, some way, you muster the resolve to keep moving forward, one tiny, granular step at a time.
This is the heart-hitting unfolding of Margo’s not-so-excellent adventure through cancer, chemo, and chaos, and how she endured a year that left her body and her world changed forever. With wit, humility, emotion, and raw honesty, Margo shares the importance of grasping any amount of gratitude and using it to survive whatever life hurls at you. Just enough is all it takes.
FLEXING MY PIC-LINE ARM TO TAKE ON ROUND 4 OF MY 3 DAY CHEMO TREATMENTS. NOTICE BLADDER CANCER SUPPORT THEMED EARRINGS.
ROCKING THE FLAMINGO HEADBAND MY DAUGHTER GOT FOR ME. THESE MAKE ME HAPPY:)
Videos and Podcasts
Battling Aggressive Bladder Cancer in the Era of COVID – Margo’s Story
BCAN’s Joslyn Brown interviews Margo Wickerham in this special episode of Bladder Cancer Matters. Margo describes her unusual journey with bladder cancer. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease at the time when COVID began to severely impact patients throughout the U.S. Her type of bladder cancer was discovered only after seeking a second opinion, and the second set of doctors learned that her cancer was fast-growing and dangerous.
Dual bladder cancer survivor finds hope and an accurate diagnosis at MD Anderson
Interview with Margo Wickersham about how her 2nd opinion saved her life