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Patients
The stories and experiences in this category are written by people currently going through treatments for cancer. Read these stories to find inspiration and know that you are not alone in your experience with cancer.
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What’s the Word?
According to some, we’re survivors after we’re done with treatment. To others, we’re survivors from the second we’re diagnosed.
Read More...The Eye of the Hurricane
I ascended the steps of the opera house stiffly, watching as we climbed higher and higher, far away from the stage. We passed rows and rows of red seats, and I took in the towering marble columns, so imposing and grand.
Read More...Negative Results
It hasn’t killed me yet—
but it spreads.
From marrow to memory,
it seeds the femur,
threads the ribs,
scrapes its code into the curve
of my pelvis—
then metastasizes
to the contact list.
Remodeling My Emotional Kitchen: Healing Through Cancer
Cancer changed my relationships with others by forcing me to face and process my trauma. Eve Ensler, the playwright of The Vagina Monologues and a cancer survivor herself, reported that she survived cancer by confronting her trauma, along with making lifestyle changes and using traditional Western medicine.
Read More...Why Not You?
For some people, when they experience a particularly arduous time in life, or when they are dealt a bad hand, so many think “Why me?” “Why did this awful thing happen to me? Why do I have to deal with this hardship? I think this can be traced to the age-old question “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
Read More...Appointment Summary
Dr. Crow is always in the know,
and running the show.
Ensuring everyone is following the memo:
What’s the Reason?
People say all kinds of things when you get cancer.
“You’re a fighter, you’re gonna beat it!”
“You’re so strong!”
“You’re inspiring!”
“It’s all part of a plan.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
Read More...When I First Saw You
When I first saw you,
You were what brought darkness
On a sunny day.
When I first saw you,
You were what most little kids
Are scared of being under their bed at night.
Gambling with Words…
I remember a particular moment that occurred a couple of years ago. I was lying on the couch, tears streaming down my cheeks, with my cell phone resting on my stomach.
Read More...Cancer: It Sucks at Any Age
I wish someone would have told me that being young won’t save me from all of the horrible side effects of cancer treatment.
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