Share Your Story: Stephanie Warner

<p>Stephanie Warner is a midwest cancer survivor and thriver. With twenty years of nursing experience and four years of surviving cancer behind her, she brings compassion and support to help others through value-based teaching and mentoring. She shows others how to embrace their strength and thrive in their own lives.</p> <ul><li>02:42: Since this is the first time that I'm seeing you, let's just go ahead and let's just do an exam.</li><li>07:24; There was an overwhelming sense of fear.</li><li>09:19: I was sitting there for an hour and I was so sick.</li><li>12:04: It’s so overwhelming with the diagnosis right away and there's so much information.</li><li>14:19: My tumor size was at its maximum size.</li><li>15:53: It was five hours of surgery.</li><li>18:44: Was there any discussion about harvesting your eggs at all?</li><li>19:58: I came out of recovery and I was in a lot of pain afterward.</li><li>22:33. It just got to the point where my cycles were so beyond painful.</li><li>24:37: So how do you think being a nurse shaped your cancer experience?</li><li>28:30: They removed 27 lymph nodes in my pelvic area.</li><li>29:50: It looked like a rash starting that isn't very typical or common.</li><li>32:19: I went to pick something up and I felt like my pelvis was going to snap in half.</li><li>34:39: I've learned that if I stay very active, these things don't flare up as much.</li><li>36:35: Based on your diagnosis, we are willing to contribute funding to your egg retrieval.</li><li>38:32: We came out of that retrieval and 13 eggs were able to be retrieved.</li><li>39:37: What is the one thing you wish you had known at the very beginning of your cancer journey?</li><li>40:32: If you could do only one thing to improve health care in the US, what would it be and why?</li><li>41:59: Thriver Rapid Fire Questions</li><li>42:50: Aside from Cancer U, what is one resource you would recommend for cancer patients and caregivers? </li></ul> <p>Resources</p> <ul><li><a href="https://www.cancer.org/" target="_blank">Am