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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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Self Isolation from a Master
This is how to handle self-isolation from someone who’s had to do it multiple times. This self-isolation that everyone is experiencing for the first time I have been through multiple times due to cancer.
Read More...COVID-19 Pandemic: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe and Reduce Your Risk
COVID-19 pandemic is an invisible enemy, its cunning, and an expert in adaption. This is a list of what you need to know to stay safe and reduce risk.
Read More...Revolutionizing Patient Care – Immunotherapy
This March is both my 27th birthday and my one-year “birth” day from when I received CAR-T immunotherapy. I had relapsed twice at that point and could hardly handle more chemotherapy. Now nearly one year later, I remain in remission and feel incredibly lucky.
Read More...Social Distancing, Isolation and How to Survive Our New Normal
With the arrival of COVID-19, we’ve all relearned the important basics we were taught when we first started going to school. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Cough and sneeze into your elbow. Stay home if you have a fever. As cancer patients and survivors, this was all hammered into our minds while in […]
Read More...COVID-19: The Unexpected Trigger
In light of the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), social distancing has become a norm all across the globe. Cancer survivors, like me, who underwent extensive chemotherapy are pros at social distancing.
Read More...Seven Year Cancerversary: An Isolated Celebration
Seven years. I’ve looked forward to today basically all of 2020 so far, as I do every spring. In the dreary winter and rainy spring months, March 18th is the day that I live for, and defines the first quarter of the year for me. But I’m spending it so differently from what I had planned, as I’m sure you are.
Read More...What Beating Cancer Taught Me About the Fear of COVID-19
Trauma is triggering, in whatever form it comes, the flashbacks, the physical sensations, the memories and most of all the reality.
Read More...COVID-19 and Cancer Patients
Self-isolation. With COVD-19, that’s what I’m hearing from everyone now. Aldi was completely sold out of meat, and almost of veggies. Sam’s Club was sold out of rice. Everyone, of course, is sold out of toilet paper.
Read More...I Need You to Stay
On May 2nd, 2017, one week before my total thyroidectomy and the official start of my cancer treatment, I laid on my kitchen floor crying. I remember every single detail. How hard and cold the floor felt, the tears that pooled near my face, and the biggest thing: The sound of my now ex-boyfriend’s boots walking out the back door and his car starting.
Read More...Disability?
Cancer, and cancer treatment, wreak havoc on your body internally, yet can sometimes give a false appearance of health if you were to look at a picture of me or see me dressed in my Sunday best on days when I am able to make the effort.
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