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The Connected Health Survey is now closed. Thank you for your interest! In the digital age, there are so many devices, websites, and technologies related to health. From fitness trackers...

In September 2019, Health Union (the parent company of Blood-Cancer.com) conducted a survey to learn more about how blood cancer affects members of our community. More than 1,900 people living...

This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for participating! A winner has been chosen and contacted. If not claimed by Monday, Oct. 12, we will draw a new winner. In honor...

The idea that I feel the need to say, “leukemia is real cancer,” is weird, isn’t it? Well to me, it boggles my mind. Believe it or not, one of...

I hear the familiar opening tune as I arrive in the family room. It’s Jeopardy time! This is something my family has been doing for quite a while. Even now...

After a trying week that ended with a girlfriend Zoom, I was hit with the news of the passing of the extraordinary actor, Chadwick Boseman. At the young age of...

Write a letter to my blood cancer? Well, why not? I once attended a summer workshop for teachers where we wrote letters to ourselves, two months into the future. We addressed...

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...