Living

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...

I like sports metaphors. Before retiring, I had a secret goal of putting in place a Monday morning tradition where my department’s co-workers were introduced, ala sports introductions, with walk-up...

I showed up at the hospital in a wheelchair, excited for the chance to be able to walk again. I was also nervous that this surgery would go as that...

Living with a multiple myeloma? You're in the right place. Our team on Blood-Cancer.com is made up of people living with all types of blood cancer. Below is a list...

Living with a type of lymphoma? You're in the right place. Our team on Blood-Cancer.com is made up of people living with all types of blood cancer. Below is a...

One of our members passed away recently. He went by the handle “bluchs.” He once wrote a profound statement in a forum on this site. I’ve mentioned part of it...