Move Up Prince George • 12th April 2025

From Meaford to Mr. PG: Finding Home in Northern BC

Huge thanks to Move Up Prince George for inviting me to contribute to your blog and help share the culture and character of this awesome city.

Blog • 17th November 2022

the Impatient Patient

Notes on the journey I didn't plan to take... Motherhood, Melanoma, and making it to my Maserati

SYSF Blog • 23rd April 2025

Natalie's Story: From Patient to Advocate

Save Your Skin Foundation wrote this blog to share Natalie Allan's inspiring story from her experience with melanoma to working with Save Your Skin Foundation to meeting her husband.

Inside Scoops on the History of Us • 2nd March 2025

College Heights Magazine

Mike & Natalie Allan ~ Featured!

Blog • 4th February 2015

the Impatient Patient: My assessment of my medical team

In the past year I have gathered quite a collection of concerned medical professionals, they invite me to their workplaces and give me rafts of paper and needle pokes and bruises and they work to keep me alive; I learn from them, I get scars from them, they make me cry, they make me laugh, they confuse me and they amuse me. Time for me to give something in return...

March 9, 2024 • 19th March 2024

Update:

Name change from Natalie Richardson to Natalie Allan

#29 on the List • 17th March 2025

2025 Top 45 Melanoma Blogs

Thank you @Feedspot!

Blog • 13th December 2022

Blogging @ GetSkinHelp.com

Blog • 29th November 2022

Once a Nosy Patient, Always a Nosy Patient (Advocate)

Back to work I go - I have cancer to write about, experience to share, fellow patients and warriors to help through their crappy time the way others helped me through mine (and still do). I have learned a lot in the past couple of years about my health and...

Her Magazine • 24th May 2016

School Lunches - To Pack or Not to Pack?

Natalie Richardson shares the stress of packing school lunches for her teenage daughters and how cancer changed her attitude.

Blog • 21st February 2015

the Impatient Patient: I am an ENTP Gemini Fire Dragon

Google's reminder of it being Chinese--oopsie - now politically correct to say LUNAR-- New Year prompted me to re-read my Chinese Zodiac information, reminding me of some fun stuff I already know about myself.  Over my many years of varied life experiences, several therapists, and some career-related behavioural study of my personality traits, I know the following: I am an ENTP, Fire Dragon, Gemini - so take that cancer!!

Her Magazine • 28th October 2016

Parenting Identical Twins - Nature versus Nurture

Simcoe.com - Columnist • 13th April 2016

Gratitude fuels my determination

Living with a cancer diagnosis is hard work. For two years I have been traveling a confusing and grueling journey, comparing my experience with that of being on a roller coaster: fast-moving and with out-of-control highs and lows.

Her Magazine • 29th April 2016

Parenting While Fighting Advanced Melanoma

Two years ago, my daughter saved my life. In the doctor’s office for her sore throat, she urged me to have our physician look at my mole. The mole I had had on my hip all my life, the mole that had changed colour and shape over the course of six months, the mole I had been putting off having looked at due to my hectic mother-with-career life...

Blog • 23rd April 2016

the Impatient Patient: Day 577

All this talk about melanoma has almost made me feel badly about neglecting my other cancer baby: papillary thyroid cancer. 577 days ago, a few months into my melanoma diagnosis, I was diagnosed with a second "primary" cancer, a tumor on my thyroid gland.  It appeared on my CT scans for melanoma and I was instantly referred to the head of Head & Neck Surgery at Sunnybrook, in late September, 2014.  I had surgery to remove the tumor - and my thyroid gland as well as 2 of 4 parathyroid - in Dec 2015

HuffPost • 3rd March 2017

A Heartfelt Thanks To My #MelanomaHeroes

The recent awareness campaign #MelanomaHeroes speaks to me on an even more personal level, as it afforded me the opportunity to publicly thank the two most important people in my life: my twin daughters.

Escarpment Magazine • 30th June 2016

Applying SPF to Your Summer Plans - Page 116-118

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Simcoe.com - Columnist • 11th May 2016

The sun is out, take care of your skin

May is Melanoma Awareness Month. It is also Lupus Awareness Month, and that of Hepatitis, Mental Health, Celiac, Stroke, Allergy, and even Motorcycle Safety. A designation of “Awareness Month” gives voice to survivors of their given affliction. It also opens communication for caregivers or those working to cure or prevent harm from said disease or trauma, or those who mourn a loved one who may have lost their battle.

Simcoe.com - Columnist • 31st August 2016

Meaford Through My Lens

I recently participated in the launch of a skin cancer awareness campaign, which featured real-life experience through the use of photography. An e-book, called “Melanoma Through My Lens Reflection Project,” was created online to...