S1E136 - Two-Time Survivor: Cheyenne Heflin on Losing a Leg, a Lung, and Never Losing Humor.
Published: July 3, 2026
Duration: 1:08:12
On this episode of the Cancer and Comedy Podcast, Dr. Brad Miller and Cheyenne Heflin open up about a topic that rarely makes it into the discharge summary—but lives in the classroom, the family room, and the therapist’s chair:
What happens to your identity, your mental health, and your sense of “who I am” when cancer takes your leg at 13…and then comes back for your lung just as you’re about to become a counselor?
Speaking from her own story—first as a middle‑schooler with osteosarcoma and an above‑knee am...