Will Monlux

Living with stage 4 Liver Cancer. Writing stories that don’t get bells. Endurance in all its quiet forms.

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

"Maybe I wasn’t losing myself. Maybe I was just shedding everything I’d picked up along the way."

A reflection on cancer, mortality, and what remains when the roles, routines, and expectations fall away.

https://t.co/xmWYCUTVTt
#Mortality #Vulnerability

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

"How do you share something you can’t yet name?"
A reflection on friendship, cancer, writing, and CJ Hauser’s The Crane Wife, https://t.co/wfGwjiwsiq
#TheCraneWife #Vulnerability #WritersOfTwitter #CancerCommunity #PersonalEssay

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

"This partnership demonstrates what's possible when research, philanthropy, and clinical care unite around a commo... https://t.co/pzQ5En2AmT

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

Sometimes, the most meaningful thing you can do is just show up with intention not to prove something, but to be part of the composition. @cactuscancersoc

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

I was once recommended for hospice.
Later, I crossed a triathlon finish line a year later.
But this isn’t a story about survival.
It’s about what comes after.
https://t.co/Jv85DGW2DV
#stanthonystri #triathlon #Cancer

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

What stays with me most isn’t triumph, or even the finish line.
It’s the quiet knowing that I didn’t disappear.
That I lived fully.
That I held space for uncertainty and chose to begin anyway.

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

@CalNoMask I get a drug through compassionate use, am on immunotherapy and have had many TACE procedures. Precision medicine really changed my life

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

A year ago, I was recommended for hospice. I could barely walk to the dog beach. Yesterday, I ran with my best friend for the first time since high school. This Sunday, I race #StAnthonysTri Still here. Still moving. And still not done

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

@CalNoMask Similar to you, when my body was wrecked by cancer, I was down to around 120 lbs. I had no strength. I've been doing Tabata. Biomechanically it takes a while to rebuild. Generally I just go for strength but if I want extra tension on muscles do partials so can avoid heavy weights

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

As someone living with terminal cancer, I’ve learned how passively traumatic the experience can be. Grateful for spaces like this that invite open dialogue, naming grief in community makes it easier to carry. Sounds like a great event

[Cancer Support Community @CancerSupportHQ]

Join us tomorrow at 3 PM ET for the CHW Peer Support Forum. Dr. Tanikka Price, will share her wisdom with CHWs about navigating trauma and grief with people impacted by cancer, followed by an interactive discussion and Q&A session.
Register here: https://t.co/oOlSbarhCD

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

@NASNPRO @loracondon As a liver cancer patient, I really connect with the idea of “glow through what you go through.” It sounds like a powerful message and a great event, sending admiration to Lora for showing up with purpose and presence

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

@Cracking_Cancer @kyleconcannon4 @JJSingleton1 @SamanthaM75074 @askelton22 I’m here today because of compassionate use, but it’s overwhelming and hard to know where to start. Without support, I would’ve been lost. @Wondrlink helped make it possible. We need fewer silos, more collaboration. It’s about working together

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

I used to think strength meant pushing through.
But after cancer, I’ve learned it’s showing up real, cracked, present, and still reaching.
This is a story about rebuilding, one step at a time.
https://t.co/U1j0ptyAHr
Appreciative of @ElephantsTea @Longreads @KatecBowler

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

I was diagnosed with terminal #Cancer . I trained for the #StAnthonysTri anyway
This is my story of reclaiming agency in the face of loss https://t.co/AaMopD6dfw
Grateful for @Actchealth @TGHCares @DaVita @MoffittNews @McKesson @Wondrlnk @ildicsiki #CancerJourney #Resilience

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

@michaelgervais Optimism isn’t soft, it’s defiant.
After I received a terminal diagnosis, I've found hope isn’t a feeling. It’s a choice you make while everything’s crumbling.
You keep showing up anyway.

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

One week from today, I’ll be racing #StAnthonysTri
A year ago, I was hospitalized fighting for my life.
Now I’m here, thanks to those who refused to let me disappear
Grateful to @BayCare @Gatorade @on_running @BuddyBrewCoffee @WashWoodie @XterraWetsuits for fueling this comeback.

[Wondrlink Foundation @Wondrlnk]

When standard treatments run out, compassionate use pathways can provide critical access to investigational therapies. But the process can feel complex and daunting.

https://t.co/nqu5QPFrwO

#CompassionateUse #ClinicalTrials #CancerCare #PatientAdvocacy #Wondrlink

[Will Monlux @Willtoendure]

I was diagnosed with terminal cancer while reemerging from depression.

What followed surprised me: clarity, presence, even joy.

This blog is where I make sense of it.
🔗 https://t.co/cYuQIUfUiL

#LivingWhileDying #CancerJourney #RadicalAcceptance #StillHere

[Wondrlink Foundation @Wondrlnk]

What if your life depended on a treatment that existed—but you couldn’t access it?

That’s why we created wondrlink — to help patients find investigational options when standard treatments run out.

https://t.co/tMmWAb3NTU

#Cancer #Hope #PatientAccess #CompassionateUse