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brain cancer
Survivor’s Guilt: The Love is Real
I am fairly new to this Cancer community. I was only diagnosed about a year ago, when my neurosurgeon told me that my cancer is incurable, it put me in a headspace of fear. I started my blog fairly soon after that, but it was more for me than anything. I was not ready to join this terrible yet somehow amazing club.
Read More...Remission: A New Perspective
Remission. I cringe when I hear the word. I especially cringe when I’m asked, always in a high-pitched, much too enthusiastic tone, “So are you in remission now?” I know and understand why people ask. I also know that by asking in a gleeful way, it’s because they hope the answer will be a resounding “Yes!”
Read More...My “Live Funeral”
When I reflect on the scariest week of my life, my heart nearly explodes at the support I received from family and friends. There’s no chance I would have gotten through the week of my emergency brain surgery without them.
Read More...Door Number Three
Thankfully three years have come and gone, but the fear of that moment has remained in the foreground. Am I three years from dying of cancer right now? One? 25? It’s the not-knowing that amplifies the effects of the disease. Yes, everyone will die, most are afraid of it, there is no escaping death.
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