Living

Navigating a blood cancer diagnosis can be challenging on its own, let alone with other health conditions occurring alongside it. When 2 or more conditions happen within the same person...

It is so easy to overreact to an initial diagnosis. Being told you have cancer is life-changing and it is good to remember that medical professionals can and do make...

The other day, I tried to add up all the doctors I’ve seen since I started my cancer journey and I had to stop when I started needing to use...

My perfect morning is a tennis game followed by a sour cream coffee cake from a farm stand near me. I love that I can play tennis and eat –...

My youngest son Josh saved my life. Not literally. I mean he didn’t rush into a burning building and pull me out. Nor did he administer CPR and bring me back from...

I was speaking with someone the other day and I said something; something that I didn’t even realize was as profound as it was until well after. We’ve all done...

I think cancer is a bully. It makes me anxious the same way I felt when I tried to avoid my neighborhood bully. While growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during...

Anyone living with blood cancer knows the feeling all too well: the fatigue that shows up way too often, and has a tendency to linger. The good news is that...

Fatigue is sadly something that is often with me. It comes and goes. I don’t know when it will really hit me. I’ve had such a bad time with it that I...

We had the pleasure of interviewing Cedrik O'Brian, author of "Why I Cry Burgundy Tears", who is living with multiple myeloma. My name is Cedrik O’Brian Wallace and I live...

What I’ve learned in the last couple of months is that the meaning of life is profound, complicated, and sometimes, uncomplicated. The decisions that I’ve had to make and continue...

Living a healthy lifestyle is the goal of most cancer survivors. After dealing with a cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy, staying well and doing all that one can do to promote...

Recently, I wrote a blog entry in which I mentioned bone marrow biopsies (BMB). If you are lucky enough to have avoided one, a BMB is a part of some...

We all know exercise is important, but when you have cancer, who really wants to? We already have enough on our minds and now we have to find time to...

Backhanded compliment: a compliment that implies it is not really a compliment at all. “She paid me a backhanded compliment when she said my work was ‘surprisingly good.’" Also, an...

Living with a type of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)? You're in the right place. Our team on Blood-Cancer.com is made up of people living with all types...

The cancer cloud. When I say it you probably think of some pesticide-laden industrial accident ominously looming over a midwestern town, but that’s not the type of cloud we’re talking...

Blood cancer can take a huge toll on mental health. However, we live our best lives when we have a proactive approach to taking care of ourselves – and that...

Last summer I bought a motorboat, with an outboard motor. I love getting out on the water, whizzing around having fun, but I’ve learned that the motor is temperamental. Sometimes...

Being brave, for me, means not giving up on the things that make me feel alive. Gabriele Grunewald passed away on a summer night in June 2019. My son and...