Living

When I think of my difficult cancer journey, a Bible verse from Hebrews 12:1 comes to mind. Keep running the race set before you with endurance. I was a runner...

It's bad enough coping with blood cancer, as the number of decisions are endless, and depending on the disease, the options are a lot to absorb. But what happens when...

Diet. If there is one thing that you can pretty much be assured of when you get cancer, it’s that at some point, someone is going to tell you about...

When you are fresh out of transplant, the fear of relapse can storm into your mind with a shout. “I’M RELAPSING!” you might think when feeling tired or out of...

Exercising was like eating vegetables. I knew it was good for me, but I couldn’t seem to keep at it. Casually walking for fun was great, but walking regularly was...

Having cancer and living during the COVID-19 pandemic has been quite a roller coaster. Cancer already makes you immunocompromised and then there was COVID to worry about. In my case...

Well, the last few weeks have been pretty horrific really. The dog's owner and I had a major blow out which wasn’t even an argument it just all exploded over a...

"I'm living the dream!" my friend Julia would say when asked how she was. I met Julia at church when she and her husband Bob started attending with his mother. Julia...

A person you know and maybe even love has received the devastating news that she has blood cancer. In my case, it’s chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) or, the lingering kind...

A cancer diagnosis can overwhelm all aspects of your life. We experience different stages of grieving in our attempt to return to normalcy. One area of concern that might need...

I used to tell my third-grade students, "Thanksgiving is not about eating turkey and pumpkin pie. The purpose of Thanksgiving is to give thanks." We Americans think we know everything...

In case you missed it, check out Part 1 of this series! It had been five years of chronic myeloid leukemia. I started one TKI oral chemotherapy, then a chemo...

In Part 1, I wrote about how playing in a symphonic band presented challenges for me to overcome in the wake of my chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). In overcoming those...

I’m a chemo failure. It was 2012 when I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. I soon found out that fighting leukemia is complicated. For me, this disease is always...

A runner with a long ponytail gave me a jolt of appreciation for what I was doing: running about four miles before it got hot. It was during an August...

When I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2011, I had never heard of it. On top of that, cancer wasn’t something that I had experienced in my family. My...

I had started my first job since treatment last November. I thought that everything would be fine. I had spent a month back home to recharge and though I was...

Are planning bucket lists fitting only for people going through cancer? Or can it be an eye-opener of living in this life span that can be open for everyone? What...

Guilt. It’s a feeling we all get from time to time. Maybe you forgot to feed the cats in the morning, or you slacked off instead of doing that work...

As I was talking with my friend currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer, it reminded me of a feeling I had during my treatments. She shared that she felt like...