Managing My Compromised Immune SystemCancer patients may be susceptible to infections from their disease and from the treatment, which can destroy white blood cells (WBC). Our immune system is designed to recognize and destroy...Bookmark for later
Beneath the MaskI recently took my first trip since my diagnosis a year and a half ago. I flew from Minnesota to Texas to visit my daughters at college. As much as...Bookmark for later
Managing My Compromised Immune SystemCancer patients may be susceptible to infections from their disease and from the treatment, which can destroy white blood cells (WBC). Our immune system is designed to recognize and destroy...Bookmark for later
Beneath the MaskI recently took my first trip since my diagnosis a year and a half ago. I flew from Minnesota to Texas to visit my daughters at college. As much as...Bookmark for later
Managing My Compromised Immune SystemCancer patients may be susceptible to infections from their disease and from the treatment, which can destroy white blood cells (WBC). Our immune system is designed to recognize and destroy...Bookmark for later
Beneath the MaskI recently took my first trip since my diagnosis a year and a half ago. I flew from Minnesota to Texas to visit my daughters at college. As much as...Bookmark for later
CML Is Isolating, Too - Can We Fix That?We’re taking isolation to the next level. I promised myself I wouldn’t write about Covid more than I had to. As a journalist, I’m spending the next few weeks 24/7...Bookmark for later
Staying ConnectedIf you are like me, you’re feeling a need to connect these days. I’m working from home, self-isolating as much as I can. I’m lucky to be home with my...Bookmark for later
Infections and Informed ConsentRecently a friend of mine and I were talking about how to navigate relationships. It’s a conversation that more and more people are having, but to cancer patients, it’s a...Bookmark for later
You Are SeenWe never really see ourselves. I mean that literally. Our eyes face forward at the world around us. We have no real way of seeing what others see when they...Bookmark for later
For Goodness' Sake, Wash Your Hands!I think blood cancer is making me anxious or maybe it's this coronavirus. Darn! Why didn't I buy stock in a hand sanitizer company? I knew a lady who attended...Bookmark for later
Surviving Setbacks: How Do You Cope During Rough Times?Do you ever feel that, for every bit of progress you make in your blood cancer journey, something comes along to smack you down or push you a few steps...Bookmark for later
Preparing For a Safe Doctor VisitCOVID-19 has changed the world and it doesn’t look like it’s changing back anytime soon. There are many precautions in place to protect us, but we also have to be...Bookmark for later
Holiday MadnessI’ve said this before: I absolutely love the holidays, but it’s bittersweet when I think of the many who are no longer here to take it all in. Here we...Bookmark for later
StandardsThe one eye-opener (though it’s been so many) that the COVID-19 virus has shown us, is how vulnerable we are to stuff. One area of insanity that stuck out for...Bookmark for later
