Deciding When to Retreat...After three years since my first treatment for follicular lymphoma, my doctor and I recently decided it’s time for retreatment. I had...reactions19comments
Thinking Like a Child: A Strategy for Dealing with Adversity...A few years ago, I found myself dealing with the adversity of cancer. I was feeling totally exhausted after chemotherapy and was...reactionscomments
AML on My Radar for More Than 15 Years...Back in my newspaper days, when telling someone what beat I covered, I would say something like, “I have arts and entertainment.”...reactions2comments
My Three Day Rule...A few days ago, my son sent me a text at 2:00am. He’s in college, and I know he’s been busy with...reactions5comments
Bittersweet: My Daughter's Coming Home...What do you do when your adult daughter tells you she has cancer? Right away you go into ‘mommy’ mode. At least...reactions3comments
The Relief of a Phone Call...Out of the blue in 2007 around 6 months after my diagnosis and being taken off Imatinib and waiting to go onto...reactions1comment
Techniques to Help Ease the Worry of Waiting...Whether you’re new to blood cancer land or you’ve been around for a while, chances are you’re going to be in some...reactions3comments
When I Told My Mother, I Didn't Want Her to be Alone...I saw a brochure on how to tell the children that you have cancer, but nothing about how to tell your mother...reactionscomments
A Little Word Can Dampen Your Mood...The other day I went into a checkup feeling fine and went out feeling anxious, and all because of one innocuous word...reactions3comments
Hospital Exercise Offers Stress Relief...If you had a fitness routine before cancer, chances are you’re going to want to continue during treatment on days that you’re...reactionscomments
Of 'Hole Pluggers' and Repeat Bone Marrow Biopsies...When my doctor presented my treatment plan to me in 2003, he asked if I wanted to be enrolled in a trial...reactions1comment
Life with Lymphoma: Highlights from our 2018 Blood Cancer In America Survey...Of those who responded to our 2018 Blood Cancer In America survey, 32% were impacted by lymphoma, a type of blood cancer...reactionscomments
Amyloidosis and Multiple Myeloma...I hadn’t felt good for months. Kept telling the doctor that something was not right, then my legs started to swell. She...reactions6comments
Blood Cancer Anxieties: Financial Stress...In this series, we discuss causes of anxiety for those facing a physical illness like blood cancer and its side effects. Phrases...reactions8comments
Practicing Mindfulness...When I was originally diagnosed with lymphoma, I knew that if I was going to overcome this adversity I had to do...reactions8comments
12 Years...Well, I can’t really believe it. The 19th of January marked 12 years since my diagnosis. 12 years since I got *that* phone...reactions1comment
What About Sex? (Part 2)...Authors note: This is the second part of a two-part series. Here we discuss ways to improve the sex life of couples...reactions1comment
Yoga as a Supportive Strategy for Cancer Patients...As a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy, I experienced not just the symptoms of the disease but also suffered debilitating fatigue. Taking a...reactions4comments
Mine vs. Yours...Who would ever think that a discussion of whose cancer is more relevant than another’s would be had, yet we see this...reactions7comments
Essential Thrombocythemia and Lymphoma-Large B Cell...I was diagnosed with Essential Thrombocytemia in July of 2017 and started on treatment shortly after that. My biggest complaint was fatigue...reactions8comments
