October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a month set aside for educating the public about the disease, raising money to combat the cancer, and promoting screenings for both men and women. Though many communities across the U.S. are fighting back against breast cancer, the LGBTQ community is especially hard hit when it comes to any […]
Single Woman’s Battle With Cancer Leads Her to Surrogacy & a Crusade For Law Change
Ashleigh Sunderlin hasn’t had it easy. At 23 years of age, a 17-pound tumor was removed from her abdomen. She lost a Fallopian tube and her right ovary when the tumor was removed. Years later, she discovered her right ovary had cysts in it, but they were removed with the chance of still being able […]
My Father’s Daughter
How Cancer Unleashed a Dog Book for Children That Features a Same-Sex Couple
True Pablove 2015
True Pablove is The Pablove Foundation’s signature family event. Each February, over 600 attendees of all ages enjoy a day filled with unique arts and crafts booths, live music, food, and a silent auction. Attendees create Valentines which brighten the day of inpatient children at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. In just four years, True Pablove […]
A Brave Mom Faces Radiation
By Tanya Dodd-Hise Chemotherapy finally ended in mid-October, and soon plans were being discussed about starting radiation. I had another surgery that I was waiting to have approved, one that would, for all intents and purposes, be my version of reconstruction. The surgeon needed to go back in and remove more skin and fat, as […]