Blood Cancer and Other Health Conditions...Navigating a blood cancer diagnosis can be challenging on its own, let alone with other health conditions occurring alongside it. When 2...reactions10comments
Pushing a Positive Attitude Not Helpful to Cancer Patients...In “Love, Medicine and Miracles,” the surgeon Bernie Siegel writes about a group of “exceptional cancer patients” whose positive attitude helped them...reactions9comments
Frustration...First and foremost Happy Halloween! I remember coming across a quote that said "No one prepared me for surviving cancer. You know...reactions14comments
Blood Cancer and the Heart of Gold...In 2020, one of the newly arrived church ladies approached me after the service and said, “You have a nicely shaped head...reactions4comments
The Gift of Self Care...It’s a conundrum. When it comes to a chronic blood cancer diagnosis we try to strike a balance between the symptoms of...reactions18comments
Ask the Advocates: Accepting a Diagnosis...Welcome to Ask the Advocates! Feel free to post your own answers to the community question in the comment section below. You...reactions4comments
Reinventing Yourself After Cancer...When you are in the throes of chemo, the real heart of cancer and its treatment, it consumes you. Mentally, physically and...reactions17comments
Watching My Hemoglobin: I Wish I Were a "10" Again!...October 25 is MDS World Awareness Day, an opportunity to commemorate and show support for those living with myelodysplastic syndromes. Bo Derek...reactions3comments
My Disease is Not Just a Plot Device...I started noticing after my blood cancer diagnosis that a lot of tv shows and movies use cancer as a plot device...reactions24comments
Do You Hear What I Hear?...I was totally unaware. But slowly I began to see that my time in the chemo lounge was passing more quickly and...reactions9comments
Breath as a Tool to Aid Healing...Breathing...it’s something we all do without even thinking. We trust that our breath will happen naturally, and without thinking, we accept the...reactionscomments
A New Kind Of Guilt...I had a very tricky week recently. To make it selfishly about me, rather than the parents it happened to. A funeral...reactions4comments
Reading Someone's Memoir About My Blood Cancer...What would I, a retired teacher from Oklahoma, possibly have in common with well-known authors and screenplay writers Nora and Delia Ephron?...reactionscomments
October Stirs Up Memories of Blood Cancer Diagnosis...When October comes, many people associate it with pumpkins, beautiful foliage, or even football games. For me, October is significant for other...reactions3comments
Fear, Anger, and Someone Else's Scanxiety...Since I was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma 15 years ago, I’ve had a bunch of scans. And of course, with every scan...reactions5comments
HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA🫶💪 warrior!...Hey 👋 👋 My name is Jimmie Lou and I was diagnosed last year of May 2022! It felt really hard knocks...reactions1comment
Promoting Your Wellness By Forgiving Others...As blood cancer survivors our priority is to promote wellness in every aspect of our lives. I recently read several articles suggesting...reactionscomments
Running To Verses Running From...Ever feel like you are running from blood cancer and it keeps catching up? Since being diagnosed with leukemia in 2011 I...reactions7comments
For Those in the Back, Leukemia is 'Real' Cancer...The idea that I feel the need to say, “leukemia is real cancer,” is weird, isn’t it? Well to me, it boggles...reactions18comments
Light the Night...Have you ever heard of Light the Night? Well, it is so much fun! This event is to bring awareness to blood...reactions5comments
