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Survivorship
The stories and experiences are written by people after cancer treatments. These stories are written for those learning how to get back to work, college or just trying to be themselves again. Just getting past treatments isn’t enough, it is surviving and thriving that is key to being you again.
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Survivor’s Guilt: Remembering Elaine
Survivor’s guilt is a strange and persistent feeling—one that I didn’t have the words for as a child. When I was younger, I knew I had survived retinoblastoma, but I didn’t fully understand what that meant in comparison to others who didn’t have the same outcome.
Read More...Meaning in the Rubble
Just a few months before my diagnosis, at 29, I felt like I could do anything. That same year, I was featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times 30 Under 30 issue, served on multiple nonprofit boards, and managed a national network of nonprofits.
Read More...How To Encourage AYA Community Cancer Patients and Survivors
I wanted to share my thyroid cancer story and my testimony to others who are going through a cancer journey and cancer treatments. It is important to read these articles that I have written about my own experience with thyroid cancer about going through thyroid cancer treatment and how it makes me feel going through my thyroid cancer journey.
Read More...Everything Happens . . . And?
Being diagnosed with cancer teaches you a lot of things. When it comes to the people in your life, I truly believe that it brings out the best in them, and that they want to be helpful.
Read More...Cancer Gets in the Way of Adulting in Many Ways
I’m almost three years out from being diagnosed and treated for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and I’m learning from experience that cancer never quite goes away. Both physically and emotionally I am living with the residual side effects of my treatment, and it is rough.
Read More...Don’t Give Cancer All the Credit
To me, the belief that everything happens for a reason is simply untrue. A few years ago, I shared a piece of artwork expressing this sentiment on Instagram.
Read More...Energy is a Fickle Thing
In 2023, life threw me another curveball—a second cancer diagnosis, this time papillary thyroid carcinoma, two and a half years after surviving kidney cancer.
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...No Reason
Everything happens for a reason. Oh, you mean that perhaps I needed to be taught a lesson? Let’s explore that.
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