Mandi lives in the Austin, Texas area with her husband and their three dogs. She is an artist and a writer with a great love of the outdoors. Mandi has been cancer-free for almost twelve years. 0:00:00 Surprise diagnosis0:05:00 Treatment0:15:31 “How can we mourn the thing we didn’t even want in the first place?”0:19:00 Being the reason everyone around you is trying not to cry25:54 Spouses addiction0:28:57 Overhearing her diagnosis 0:34:25 Healing in transparency0:43:30 Patient guilt0:53:05 Forgiveness0:59:04 Supporting other survivors1:10:15 The benefits of writing1:21:08 Simply Do and Be1:29:00 Post-treatment followups1:39:35 Treatment for the treatment 1:47:09 Having an incurable diseasehttps://www.facebook.com/mandi.chambless - recorded October 21, 2020