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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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No One Talks About the Cocoon
People talk about the butterfly because that is the part of transformation we can see. We see what emerges. We marvel at what survived. But we rarely think about what happened to the caterpillar while it disappeared from the world for a while.
Read More...Between Pineapple & Back Pain; The World Moves On
Life is such an interesting, complex, and multilayered aspect of existence. As babies, we enter this world, some of us came into this world with our very first battle cry. Some surpass due dates, some come early and fight for their strength.
Read More...My New Found Identity
Cancer has taught me a great deal. Although the word itself taught me something I didn’t expect, at the young age of 39, I learned that I needed to find ME… cancer or not, my identity needed to be uncovered and shared instead of overshadowed by accomplishments and possessions that actually did nothing for my spirit and well-being.
Read More...Mind the Gap
Sometimes it’s hard to find the words, To say what I truly want to say, It’s like that thing, You know what I’m talking about, These words just won’t come out
Read More...The Unknown of it All
Your body goes into survival mode after a diagnosis. There’s no pause, no soft landing—just a moment that splits your life into before and after, and suddenly everything familiar feels distant.
Read More...The Time Continuance
Life is not a question of how much time we have, but what we choose to do with the time we are given. Sitting still, waiting, not moving—is that what we are meant to do?
Read More...The Red Angel
The Red Devil she’s called, A drug so potent, She kills the cancer, Wreaking havoc all over, She kills and she kills, The good and the bad, My blood counts drop, They never stood a chance
Read More...The Gift That Keeps On Giving
During treatment one of the “surprise” side effects was Clostridioides Difficile (C-Diff) which is pretty extreme diarrhoea, combined with feeling awful – sometimes hard to identify amongst the constant nausea from my weekly chemo.
Read More...The Weight of Thank You
In seventeen years of living with cancer, I have met an extraordinary entourage of people. Some have flitted in and out of my life like butterflies, delicate and fleeting, while others have remained, steadfast and unyielding as granite boulders.
Read More...I Was Made for This
My cancer journey has been arduous but not impossible. Everytime I walk six steps, I feel like my body is taking five steps back. Oftentimes it is.
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