Emotional Support
Cancer sucks. Whether you are a patient, survivor, caregiver or loved one we all go through it differently. Read these inspiring and emotional stories to learn how others like you are getting through their journey with cancer.
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The Look What Cancer Stole From Me Petting Zoo
This post was lost in our drafts and written over a year ago, while I was getting ready to move from Central Illinois to California. I stumbled across it while taking care of some of our website backend and thought I’d share it…even outdated as it is (I’m completely situated in California now…goodness moving is […]
Read More...Partnering With Friends To Maintain Motivation
According to my neurologist, migraines respond well to structure. That means I’m supposed to keep a regular sleeping and eating schedule, and also exercise daily. The latter is particularly unappealing on my bad days, which is why I enlisted some friends as exercise buddies.
Read More...When You’re Stuck In The Pickle Jar…
Sometimes I feel stuck. I’ve picked up a brand new career track post-cancer and some days are better than others. Sometimes I feel like I have it all figured out and sometimes I spend weeks feeling so very stuck on something. For a couple of weeks it was the budget and strategic planning documents that […]
Read More...Stay Comfortable And Warm During Treatments And Tests
I have previously talked about how to dress warmly for a regular day. A day at or in the hospital imposes additional requirements, however. Depending on what tests or treatments are being done, you may: need to ensure easy access to certain blood vessels or to catheters have restrictions on wearing metals need to dress and […]
Read More...It Should Get Easier
Eight years on, I know the drill. After the interminable wait in the radiology department waiting room, I’m led to a small room with a narrow bed next to an ultrasound machine. I dutifully wore a v-neck sweater so I wouldn’t have to change into a gown. After removing my necklace and earrings, I lay […]
Read More...Easy Ways To Talk About Poop!
Whether you’re ready or not, pooping is an important factor in how you’re dealing with cancer treatment and its side effects.
Read More...How To Survive Your Own Apocalypse
My husband is a notoriously quirky gift-giver. For my birthday this year he bought me a weekend at a zombie apocalypse survival camp because I am a huge fan of the television series The Walking Dead.
Read More...What It’s Like To Have An MRI
After my last CT scan, the radiologist who read the scan suggested that I have an MRI to look further into a cluster of cells that had taken residence on my liver. This was my first go at a not entirely clean scan, post my declared cancer free date, so needless to say I was […]
Read More...10 Things About Cancer in Your 20s
Let me start this off by saying that I read a LOT of Buzzfeed, which means I often think of things in lists. So when brainstorming my next blog post, I figured, I may as well post a list! There is so much that changes in your life when you get cancer, regardless of age; […]
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