Kids deserve a childhood that is happy, healthy, and safe. So why would kids with chronic medical conditions be any different? The problem: mental health is often not a priority when treating kids for long-term medical conditions. I should know
One of the biggest, most prominent things I had to deal with throughout and after my cancer treatment, were the reactions other people had to my situation. There was everything from insecurities about my appearance, which every teenager has, to
A full year of my life was spent calling a hospital "home", after I was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in 2012. “The Confiscated Leg” is my attempt at showing the world what can come after pediatric cancer, when so few people seem to think about i
No one tells you what comes after a pediatric cancer diagnosis. So much focus is spent in the moment on treatment, that it can be hard to even consider what comes next. My name is Cheyenne Heflin: a pediatric cancer survivor, and above knee amp