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AYA Cancer
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.
Anxiety Stream
There’s a lyric from Snoh Aalegra’s song “Violet Skies” that goes “I’ve always been a worrier, but I’ll always be a warrior”. For some reason, that lyric stuck with me when I started my cancer journey.
Read More...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.
Read More...If You Give A Neurodivergent a Cancer
Raise your hand if you’ve ever read the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Keep your hand raised if you identify with that curious little house rodent on an incredibly personal level.
Read More...Opting Out of the Grind
The world will give you no shortage of opportunity. They are everywhere you go.
Read More...It Never Goes Away
I learned a word this week. Want to know what it was? Propitious. It means favorable, or something indicating a good chance of success; in other words, it means a good omen.
Read More...No Guarantee of the Future
Cancer means fighting for your life with no guarantee of the future
Fostering means loving the children in your care with no guarantee of the future.
To you baba, I live
When my father was diagnosed with lung cancer, I knew I would also fall sick, very soon. Six months later, I started feeling a growing lump but thought that maybe it’s some sort of hormonal change.
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