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AYA Cancer
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...Make-A-Wish Side Effect
I was looking at the picture of my 19-year-old Max, standing on the sparkling white top of Lone Peak, in a black ski patrol coat, with a neon orange avalanche pillow inflated behind his back.
Read More...What Lies Beneath
Physically, I’m okay. Scans are clear. Labs are clear. Doctor appointments get pushed back to every six months, sometimes even yearly. The unsettling feeling still creeps in on the first of every month—checking my breasts diligently, holding my breath, and for a split second, seeing a lump as big as before.
Read More...The People I Lost, the Self I Found
Hi herd, hope you all are well. I am writing again to talk about the one lesson that cancer has taught me today. Do you know what that is? It is people.
Read More...Move Over Deet
In late winter / early spring of 2016, at the age of 35, I was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer. This, along with the surgery and 12 rounds of a chemotherapy called FOLFOX were a complete surprise.
Read More...The Reverse Mullet Undercut
My hair was my thing. Long, luscious, naturally straight, and easy to style. All my life I really took it for granted how beautiful and effortless it was.
Read More...Perpetually Healing
For me, side effects are just that, to the side of it all. Brain cancer wrecked my body. From night one in the ICU until I was transferred to inpatient rehab 7 weeks later, everything from daily hygiene, dressing, eating, were all done for me.
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.
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