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I Was Made for This
My cancer journey has been arduous but not impossible. Everytime I walk six steps, I feel like my body is taking five steps back. Oftentimes it is.
Read More...Surviving Life: A Story of Mental Health and Cancer Intertwined
There is never a good time to be diagnosed with cancer and there was something about my timeline that really threw salt on an open wound. Before cancer was not easy, which meant that after cancer came into my life everything was just that much harder.
Read More...The Unlikely Survivor: Autism, Transition, and Going Beyond the 15% Colon Cancer Odds
In 2017, I was diagnosed with colon cancer at 23 years old. I was initially told I had stage 3c cancer with a 70% chance of surviving five years.
Read More...The Give and Take of Cancer
Cancer is greedy, in the most ravenous and insatiable way. It has taken my energy, my routines, my sense of stability, and any sense of predictability I ever thought I had.
Read More...Remodeling My Emotional Kitchen: Healing Through Cancer
Cancer changed my relationships with others by forcing me to face and process my trauma. Eve Ensler, the playwright of The Vagina Monologues and a cancer survivor herself, reported that she survived cancer by confronting her trauma, along with making lifestyle changes and using traditional Western medicine.
Read More...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.
Read More...a life forgotten
I grieve every life. I could have lived these past years. I miss who I was.
Read More...What I Wish MyChart Notifications Told Me
I wish someone told me that doing my best each day is enough. I don’t have to be some superhero and maintain the capacity I had before cancer crept into my life.
Read More...Deep Transformation: From Corporate Ambitions to Valuing Life and Purpose
In the fast-paced corporate world, success is often defined by prestigious titles and material achievements. In the culture I grew up in, we are taught from a young age to be productive, suppress our strong emotions, and prioritize certain social relationships that value visible success over genuine human interaction.
Read More...Silver Linings
When you think of your life and how it’s supposed to go, cancer never enters the picture. But when it does, everything stops, at least temporarily. While you try to wrap your mind around the thought that this disease just might kill you.
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