Rare Faith Blog

After enjoying a wonderful week-long break from chemo to celebrate my son's commencement from BYU and visit family in Utah, I went back for round 4 on Monday 5/1/2023. It's time to recap how round 3 w...

Someone shared this video with me when they heard I was battling cancer.

It sparked a question that maybe some of my other readers have also been wondering, so I decided to make a post about it.

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April 10, 2023

Sitting here getting my 3rd round of chemo. The last round was more tolerable than the first in one way, but more difficult in other ways.

I didn't have a repeat of feeling like I had...

Round 2 is in the books! I’ve learned that for me at least the first day of a chemo round isn’t miserable, it’s just weird. We call it “Mom’s glitching again”. Like fingers that suddenly stop doing wh...

First, a little back story. If you're just hearing about this, you might want to start with Leslie's Cancer.

3/9/2023 four days before chemo

With chemo on the horizon, Sarah (16) starting spring bre...

This is not going to be your typical Rare Faith Newsletter and it's a little hard to know where to start, but here goes...

In July I began having abdominal pain that I attributed to probable leaky gu...

Student Spotlight: Jamie Jensen

When she was in her early twenties, Jamie Jensen fully recovered from Stage lV kidney disease, depression, and cardiovascular disease. In her words, it was "through pe...

By Helen Huntsman

You know that saying, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead?”

I’ve decided that people who say that have never been tired.

Today I’d like to share a bit about my experience with chronic fati...

By Lena Mattice

A few years ago, I set a goal to do a side plank on the beaches of Hawaii when I reached my goal weight of 140#. I was so excited about that goal, and I was so excited to go to Hawaii...