WELCOME

When I was waiting for the doctors to call with my diagnosis, something in me already knew, and it wasn't panic. It was this quiet, steady feeling that whatever was coming was going to matter beyond just my own survival.

What I didn't realize yet was how broken the survivorship landscape actually is. Over the next several months I went through multiple major surgeries, including an ileostomy and its reversal, a bout of sepsis, and twelve incisions across my abdomen by the time it was all said and done. My body was completely depleted by the time treatment ended, and then, on the last day, my doctors said "you're done, see you in six months for a scan," and sent me home.

Here's what I want every survivor, every doctor, and every hospital administrator to understand. When you have knee surgery, the doctor hands you a ten-week physical therapy roadmap, week by week, here's exactly how you rebuild. When you survive cancer, after months of poison, surgery, and trauma, you're handed nothing: no roadmap, no plan, no follow-up call, just a body that no longer feels like yours and the impossible expectation that you'll figure the rest out on your own.

It took me years of rebuilding my strength alone in my house before I finally found a pelvic floor specialist who took one look at me and walked me through the rehabilitation I should have been offered the day I was discharged. That is the gap. That is the abandonment. And that is the reason The Cancer Comeback Club exists.

So I built the program I wish had existed when I was trying to find my footing again. It's about rebuilding strength, confidence, and identity in a way that feels human, science-backed, and even a little hopeful, blending my expertise as an NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Plant-Based Nutritionist with my lived experience as a colon cancer survivor.

And then there's 🐾Ernesto. He came into my life while I was still piecing myself back together, and on the days I barely had the energy to walk down the street, he waited beside me without a shred of judgment, as if to say we could just try again tomorrow. That same steady, patient spirit is woven into everything we do inside this program, snack supervision and drive-by form checks included.

If you're navigating life after cancer treatment and wondering how to begin again, you don't have to figure this out alone. 🐾Ernesto and I will be right here with you, one small step at a time. And yes, there will probably be snacks involved.