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
Possible Risk Factors for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma...Now in remission for Stage II non-Hodgkin lymphoma following treatment, Dennis takes a look at some possible risk factors you might want...reactions5comments
Participating in Clinical Research...Clinical trials are a type of research in which new treatments are studied. Through the clinical trial process, new treatments can be...
My Treatment for Blood Cancer...Upon arriving at the clinic I was told that I had a very bad case of blood cancer, and without treatment, I...reactions7comments
The Man in the Arena: Surviving Multiple Myeloma Since 1992...When diagnosed with stage 3 myeloma in 1992, I decided to fight. 4 stem cell transplants, secondary cancer, many clinical trials, and...reactions14comments
