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Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jameson Taillon shares hilarious story about Yankees teammate Anthony Rizzo's
Jameson Taillon shares hilarious story about Yankees teammate Anthony Rizzo's originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Former New York Yankees pitcher Taillon has faced much tougher challenges than pitching in big games. Now a Chicago Cubs starter, Taillon battled testicular cancer when he was with the Pirates early in his career. He bonded with former Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo, a Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivor, over that during their time in the Bronx. Advertisement But it wasn't always a somber connection, Taillon admitted, telling a pretty hilarious story on the "Diggin Deep" podcast. Former Yankees pitcher Jameson Taillon in 2022.© Tim Heitman-Imagn Images Taillon recalled a game against the Tampa Bay Rays, somewhere around the eighth inning, when his velocity started to dip and he found himself behind a hitter. That's when Rizzo, spotting his struggling pitcher buddy, stepped in with some classic Rizzo wisdom. 'I think it was like the eighth inning and my velo starts dropping a little bit. I'm like, following behind the guy. Rizz comes out and, like, we had talked about how we both had cancer and stuff,' Taillon said. 'So he comes out, and he's like, 'Hey, I know you only have one nut, but like, I want you to pitch right here. Like you have two let 'em hang out.'' Advertisement Taillon said he was kind of stunned on the mound. "I didn't know how to feel about that," Taillon said, laughing. Rizzo was notorious for his pep talks on the mound with struggling pitchers. In fact, the Los Angeles Dodgers mocked the Yankees for it after the 2024 World Series. Taillon's story, however, gives a glimpse of Rizzo's attempt to keep things light when the pressure was on. It's one reason he was so well-liked by his teammates. Rizzo was a beloved Yankee, and Taillon shows us why. Related: Yankees Should Flip Struggling Closer at the Deadline Related: Giancarlo Stanton's New Comeback Timeline Has Yankees Planning Lineup Changes This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 7, 2025, where it first appeared.
WebMD
13-05-2025
- Health
- WebMD
The True Story of the Mental and Emotional Health of Survivorship
May marks Mental Health Awareness Month, and for many of us living in the aftermath of breast cancer, it brings a quiet invitation to look inward – beyond the scars, the statistics, and the survival stories – into the less-visible terrain: our mental and emotional healing. Survivorship is often misunderstood. From the outside, it might seem like the "hard part" is over. But surviving breast cancer is not a clean endpoint. It's a continued, evolving process of facing what is – and grieving what isn't. The truth is, survivorship is messy. It is confusing. It's full of contradictory emotions: relief and resentment, gratitude and grief, hope and fear. It's grieving the body we once had, the future we thought we were building, the safety of our bodies, and the certainty that once grounded us. And all of that is normal. What I've come to understand – both professionally as a mental health provider and personally as someone living this – is that processing emotions isn't about fixing ourselves. It's about building capacity. When we allow ourselves to feel grief, anger, guilt, and uncertainty, we are not failing at healing – we are actively participating in the human experience of it. Too often, especially in cancer spaces, we are praised for being positive, strong, and 'fighting' with grace. But the external and internal expectation to be endlessly resilient can create shame when the harder emotions inevitably show their faces. We need to normalize the full emotional experience of survivorship. We need to say: Feeling is not weakness. It is a human experience. We don't process our emotions to make them disappear. We process to understand. We make space for them. We feel them to reclaim our humanity. That is what builds resilience – not emotional perfection, but emotional presence. This month, I've been reflecting on what it means to truly care for our mental health after cancer. It's not a single breakthrough moment. It's building a toolbox – one coping skill at a time. For me, that's meant: And maybe most importantly: letting go of the idea that I have to 'move on' from what changed me. Healing doesn't mean erasing what happened. It means integrating it, day by day, in a way that honors where you've been and who you're still becoming. So to my fellow survivors – and to anyone sitting with hard feelings this month – I offer this: You are not broken because you're still grieving. You are not weak because you still worry. You are not behind because healing doesn't look linear. Real progress isn't the absence of feeling – it's the willingness to be with yourself, fully, even when it hurts. This is how we rebuild. This is how we rise – not by denying our pain, but by holding it gently. Let May be a reminder: Your mental health matters in survivorship, not just in treatment. Your emotions are not problems to solve – they are evidence that you're alive, still in it, and still moving forward.
CTV News
12-05-2025
- Health
- CTV News
Daffodil Garden for Cancer Survivors celebrates 5 years
Daffodil Garden for Cancer Survivors celebrates 5 years The Daffodil Garden for Cancer Survivors celebrated its fifth anniversary Sunday in Dartmouth, N.S.
