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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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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.
Read More...The Adulting You Can’t See
There always seems to be a buzzword for a time period in one’s life that sticks. The current word is “adulting”. It’s the word that doesn’t need explaining and represents more than the word itself.
Read More...Guilt of the Sister
Growing up as the youngest of four siblings, I always felt guilt. Guilt that my older brothers, Mark and Ken, had to look after me, guilt that my brothers would protect me, and guilt that I didn’t thank them enough.
Read More...Still I Rise
Still I Rise, When the tears are hot, And my eyes are swollen, Still I Rise, When pain is a companion, Instead of a visitor
Read More...Playing Russian Roulette with Cancer
After living for seven months with
No Evidence of Disease,
I spent two weeks
Thinking that I had metastasized liver cancer.
Adulting is Bananas
The light of the refrigerator blinded me. I was confused as to why it was so dark; I had just awakened from a nap. A nap that I had not planned. Sleep sometimes attacks me; I call them sleep attacks.
Read More...What, Like It’s Hard?
Living with cancer as an adult feels like navigating through a maze of challenges you never imagined you’d face, all while trying to keep everything together—your family, your career, your mental health, and your hope.
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