Living

When you have blood cancer, it comes with limitations. That’s just the long and short of it, period. Accepting those limitations into your life, though, is not easy and takes...

The possibility of a cancer diagnosis can be most frightening. Choosing the right physician for follow-up, diagnosis and treatment is so important. The process may take time as you look...

You have cancer and that’s a tough pill to swallow. Along with that news comes a whole host of emotions, side effects, and loss. It will take time to get...

“That’s very sad, but it’s not you.” My son said words to this effect years ago when my good friend and soulmate PJ died. The two of us had found...

Lately, I’ve been listening to the song “It Only Takes A Moment” from the musical Hello Dolly/i>. The song is sung by one of the protagonists who sings how it...

Have you ever seen that game show Price is Right? The object is to spin the wheel and be the highest scorer, who wins a chance to bid on the...

In this video, Dennis looks back on his one year of remission from non-Hodgkin lymphoma and looks forward to the year to come 2022. Hopefully the remission continues...

When I wrote about my port recently, I wasn’t planning on making it into a three-part saga. Similarly, two years ago, I wasn’t planning to watch every episode of all...

I know what you might be thinking, and I used to think that way too. Even though I have lived most of my life in Minnesota, I was not a...

Listening is so important especially when blood cancer is involved. I’ve had a few dicey incidents lately where someone not listening put me in a precarious medical position. I’m not...

I started noticing after my blood cancer diagnosis that a lot of tv shows and movies use cancer as a plot device. I remember hanging out with my roommate in...

When we speak of what helps us maintain the balance within our body composition, water is so very important. Did you realize our bodies are made of 60-70% of water?...

I tried to hide the tears streaming down my face, but it was too late. I thought my parents would scold me. After all, I was five years old, about...

It’s a thing you’re supposed to do when you have blood cancer. The only problem is most of us would rather be trapped next to an Instagram model on a...

I admit it, I have a behavioral problem. It isn’t rare, but until recently, I didn’t have a name for it, when someone called it “Shiny Object Syndrome,” which seemed...

“Where did I put that sulfa?” I said to myself and the dog. The dog of course didn’t answer. I didn’t know the answer myself. That’s why I was asking...

There are times when I feel comfortable enough to share my diagnosis and my symptoms with someone. I’ve been treating this chronic myeloid leukemia for ten years now and often...

Even though I’ve been living with multiple myeloma for 4 years now, I had to look up what Myeloma Action Month is and how it is different from Myeloma Awareness...

I love children's literature. Book Week was one of my favorite weeks when I was teaching. Students would dress in costume as their favorite book character or make posters about...

I was first diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia seven years ago. My first visit with the CML specialist lasted for three hours. I remember some of what was said and...