One of the hardest feelings anyone fighting cancer faces is the monumental loneliness that comes from feeling you're fighting this battle all alone. Despite the good drug therapy that may be keeping you alive to fight another day. Despite doing all the "right things," like getting some exercise and eating the right foods. Despite all the hugs and kindness shown by people who love you unconditionally.
That's where ImermanAngels.org comes in, a non-profit organization founded by Jonny Imerman seven years ago under the premise that there's no greater means for supporting people fighting cancer than to help them make a connection with "angels" of the same age and gender who have beaten that very same kind of cancer. A survivor of testicular cancer for more than six years, the 34-year-old Chicagoan started the group because he yearned for a mentor -- a cancer survivor his own age to talk him through all the problems he'd face with living life -- he never found.
Although Imerman Angels is based in the Windy City, its network of mentors extends all over the world, not only to folks fighting cancer but to the caregivers who support them through it. Because voices speak louder than words on a Web page, watch the following video testimonial that does a far better job of describing how Imerman Angels helps to build special one-on-one relationship between cancer fighters and survivors that last a lifetime than I ever could.