Stories

When I was 47 years old in 2004, my family and I received the grim news that I had advanced AML. The survival rate at the time was 15% to...

I started by turning the chemo bottles this way and that before storing them in the highest shelf of the cabinet. Now they looked like any other medication with the...

I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma on February 21, 2019. As I sat there in the treatment room alone; for my oncologist/hematologist had just dropped this on me: I remember...

Sometimes a spiritual awakening requires the body and soul to be faced with situations that are so overwhelming that you have no choice than to open your heart and recognize...

I've been praying and begging doctors and hospitals for help and diagnosis for working on 5 years now. It all started with a ripped loose collarbone at the sternum and...

In March of 2014, I had a stroke. Come to find out after an MRI I had had multiple strokes. Four months later on my stroke journey of doctor after...

I just found out last month I have PV Now I'm waiting for results from my bone marrow. Not sure how I feel...Confused, angry, scared? I have been oral chemotherapy...

Last May 2018, I was diagnosed with CLL/SLL. It's been a hard road trying to understand what I really have. Throughout this time, I was in the watchful waiting stage...

I feel tired most days. No motivation. When I eat or drink sometimes do not feel well. Thus a nap is usually in order. I've been healthy all my 75...

June 2, 2017, I learned that I have myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Doesn't that sound like something written for a Star Trek episode? Maybe something Mr. Spock would acquire? Myelo is...

I wore red that day. I wore red and looked good! Damn good! Okay…that may be a stretch…I wore an old red t-shirt, slightly loose around the neck so the...

My name is Becky, and I was this healthy invincible woman who just by chance went to my primary physician one year ago. Feeling good, I just happened to mention...

I am 20 months post bone marrow transplant for AML. My last visit at the end of January showed all positive results. I return to the doctor at the beginning...

I hadn’t felt good for months. Kept telling the doctor that something was not right, then my legs started to swell. She sent me to a kidney doctor who sent...

I thought I would throw in my one piece of advice for MM patients. When I was diagnosed, I moped and cried for a week. Then I said, "To hell...

I was diagnosed with Essential Thrombocytemia in July of 2017 and started on treatment shortly after that. My biggest complaint was fatigue but I continued to work my parttime job...

Prior to 2012, I was living the life I loved. I was the mother of two beautiful children; my son Matthew was 22. He was building a life of his...

It's been over 5 years since my diagnosis and my cancer is still going, but slowing down. I have an enlarged spleen and liver. I get up and get dressed...

In September, I went in for my annual mammogram. All was good with it but the lymph nodes in my armpit were enlarged. Blood work showed my WBC was really...

Wow, where to start? Well, I can say I moped and cried for a week. After that f**k it. Must be my Brooklyn upbringing. I believe getting diagnosed with multiple...