Living

The month after my father died, in 2002, my boyfriend of four years left me for his childhood sweetheart. The next year, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)...

Visiting your doctor online is a great way to get healthcare if you are not able to go in person. You can get medical advice, visual assessments, treatments, or update...

By now you likely are aware of the new beast in the room that has affected many lives around the world. This beast does not follow a gender but more...

Coping with a life-threatening health condition such as blood cancer is such an incredibly stressful time for both cancer patients and their families. Cancer affects your physical health and causes...

Telehealth is a virtual service that lets patients interact with a healthcare professional online. This lets doctors and patients connect without being in the same room, or even the same...

If you know anything about chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T-cell therapy), you’re likely to know it’s expensive. Like crazy expensive. When I was offered my treatment, the estimated...

I like to sail. Until recently, I had a 25-foot Lancer. Ironically, I named her “Fargone,” as in, we-sail-off-and-are-far-gone. But a tree fell on her one winter. My poor boat...

After my stem cell transplant, I was depressed and anxious. I had naively assumed that my youngish age and physical conditioning prior to transplant would protect me against the perils...

I really struggled with the title for this article. Because I’m a big Guess Who fan, this is what I ended up with. Others up for consideration were “Glass Half...

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It turns out, I talk out loud to myself. It’s a habit I seldom notice unless my wife is in the room. It drives her nuts. She always thinks I'm...

When cancer comes calling, it doesn’t exactly leave much time for packing before it rips you out of your normal life and deposits you onto the Poseidon Adventure of medical...

I’ve been on two different steroids for over 8 years. I’ve been taking a baby aspirin every day for over 8 years. Even when I’ve changed my main myeloma drug...

I remember my dad saying to me when I was a little girl, "I think you have your giggle box turned over!" He would often add, "That's okay. I'd rather...

It’s been really rough recently. My energy levels have been declining. I tried to ignore it, to not focus on it, to hope that it was just because I was doing...

For many, managing blood cancer may be the most hectic experience of our lives. What I mean is that there are many layers of our daily lives that most people...

In between chemotherapy sessions, while recovering at home, I could tell when my red blood cell count was so low that I would need a transfusion, or maybe even a...

Last week was a huge milestone for me personally; I was declared ‘cured’ from my lymphoma, after 3 years of treatments and ultimately, the successful treatment in a clinical trial...

It dawned on me after attending a very lively, but gloomy conference that we all have an impending cloud following us. Though I’m sure many of us know, there are...

Often these days, I find myself humming a song of my youth aptly titled “Short People.” In fact, once I start humming, it's hard to get the song out of...