Let's Talk About Mental Health...Mental health and physical health are often linked, with one impacting the other. Mental health, in particular, can be difficult to talk...reactions1comment
Survivor’s Guilt: The Last One Standing...In a perfect world, our paths would not have crossed. Sarah was an X-ray technician, and Andrea was a nurse. I was...reactions25comments
It's OK to Have a Bad Day...The best advice I ever got from another cancer patient was this: It’s OK to have a bad day. As cancer patients...reactions10comments
Rituals, Pancakes, and the Ride...On treatment day, do you have a ritual? My daughter, Crystal did. When Crystal was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma when she was...reactionscomments
Spring Is Coming...A cancer diagnosis feels like a bleak winter. My diagnosis came just after my 44th birthday at the end of the summer...reactions12comments
Time for a New Cancer Paradigm...When I meet someone new, there often comes a question about what I do for a living and my mid-life career change. ...reactions8comments
Chemo Hair Can Be a Touchy Subject...People love to talk about my hair now that it’s been growing back. I think a lot of people are trying to...reactions4comments
Cancer, Community, and Buffalo Chicken...On the night of my 40th birthday, my wife took me out for a beer and a sandwich. That was 11 years...reactions6comments
Listening to My Body: Understanding Lymphoma Symptoms...I want to share the symptoms of Hodgkin lymphoma that I noticed prior to my diagnosis with you. Most importantly, I hope...reactions10comments
Surviving "Cancer Survivor"...Now that 2019 is upon us, it has me thinking. It’ll be my first post-cancer year. Which means, succinctly, I’ll be a...reactions18comments
The Value of Being a Peer Mentor...Experiencing and living through a cancer diagnosis involves taking charge in an overwhelming environment of tests, treatments and physician visits. As a...reactions7comments
Scanxiety Doesn't End at No Evidence of Disease...A part of the process of cancer care is the scan. Before my diagnosis with Hodgkin lymphoma, I had heard the terms...reactions3comments
Port of Entry Closed...Once my treatment plan was in place, the first step was a port-a-cath. My oncologist casually mentioned that the port procedure was...reactions6comments
Living with Lucy Part 2...That visit was soon followed by a hematologist/oncologist consultation because he specialized in dealing with folks who live with Lucy or one...reactionscomments
Living with Lucy Part 3...Let’s talk about blood donations for a minute. First, thank you if you have ever donated blood and to those of you...reactionscomments
Living with Lucy Part 1...By Linda Gainey Smock Lucy is a mean girl. Oh, I know, not all girls named Lucy are mean. In fact, I...reactionscomments
Cancer Takes and Takes and Takes... Everything...I often think about weird things when I am drifting off instead of working. Things like “How does Superman shave?” and “Do...reactions22comments
MPN Diagnosis...I was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera by my general practitioner, essential thrombocythemia by my hematologist and Myeloproliferative disorder by my oncologist take...reactionscomments
Surviving Multiple Myeloma Since 1992...When diagnosed with stage 3 myeloma in 1992, an oncologist gave him 3 years to live. Jim asked more questions that led to...reactionscomments
ET? PCV?...My husband was diagnosed with blood cancer over ten years ago. They did all the blood tests, and bone marrow tests. It...reactions3comments
