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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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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.
Read More...Dancing Through the Rain with Cancer
Words painted on the wall of my first infusion center. I never imagined how much power and importance these words would have in my life that first day I sat in an infusion chair for my eight-hour long infusion of alpha interferon, intron A.
Read More...War With Cancer
Brain cancer kills. It kills in just more than one way. It slowly started to kill me in 2019. It gave me a glimpse of Death, face to face with his beckoning eyes. He was elated that he could inscribe my name in his book of souls.
Read More...Anxiety Stream
There’s a lyric from Snoh Aalegra’s song “Violet Skies” that goes “I’ve always been a worrier, but I’ll always be a warrior”. For some reason, that lyric stuck with me when I started my cancer journey.
Read More...It Never Goes Away
I learned a word this week. Want to know what it was? Propitious. It means favorable, or something indicating a good chance of success; in other words, it means a good omen.
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