Stories

As memory fades away some images and sentences stay. I can´t remember the whole thought experiment of the quantum theory pioneer, Mrs. Schrodinger, but there was a particle, a box...

Last year I had a stroke in July. The hospital I was at couldn't find anything that caused it, so they blamed it on my birth control pills. They sent...

My name is Debbie P. I was going about my life normally and had just hosted my daughters wedding for 250 guests on June 1,2019. What a perfect day...all was...

I was diagnosed with Plasma Cell Leukemia in June 2020! I was started on chemotherapy immediately. They will harvest my stem cells in September 2020, and I will have an...

Multiple myeloma is not a death sentence! I was diagnosed in December 2015. Have been through a multitude of tests and treatments. No remission but also no progression. I am...

I have chronic lymphocytic leukemia. I was walking around with a knot on my neck, didn't feel very good, and I was always weak. I went to the doctor (5/18)...

I was feeling really lousy and I did not know why. I thought it could be my thyroid or the stress from my job or taking care of my family...

Sitting in my hospital room, infusing chemotherapy, you have to wonder how my life ended up like this. It all started in 2018 with a cough and cold that would...

June 2015 I was diagnosed with AL Amyloidosis. I was 55 years old. Amyloidosis is a plasma cell disorder-Blood Cancer. Symptoms began with severe neuropathy pain in my left foot...

Between the need too rest due to pain, or from overwhelming fatigue I am not able to get as much done as I used to. while it bothers me it...

I was 45 years old and had a baby that was 2 years old and 3 other children, when a routine blood test was suspect that I might have CLL...

Aunt Flo, Bloody Mary, and The Blob. If you are of the female persuasion you know what I am talking about. I am specifically writing for you, my soul sisters!...

I thought I was losing it. Going absolutely bonkers. There was this pain and it was sometimes sharp, sometimes dull and achy. Sometimes it disappeared altogether. Other times it had...

Life with blood cancer is painful. Struggling, doubting, and uncertainties. Self-isolation is my new norm. Foggy brain and spinal pain is my best friend. My good day is when I...

There was no taste to food anymore. I chewed slowly trying to find it. The texture was revolting without taste. I had already lost 4 dress sizes in three months...

I used to have long thick hair; I mean really thick hair, but today I am bald. I’m bald because I’m in treatment for leukemia. As I was admitted to...

2020, what a year already! In the middle of January, I was diagnosed with Waldrenstrom, a blood cancer. My world flipped upside down. While in the Columbus hospital my mind...

In 2013, I had a routine blood test, for cholesterol screening. My WBC was slightly elevated, so I was re-tested. I was subsequently diagnosed with CLL and have been seeing...

I am a former researcher, now a patient lawyer and I work in the pharma space. Even though I have more scientific background than the average person, it was difficult...

I was diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma back in November of 2010 at the age of 29 years old. I sort of breezed through ABVD and radiation all while planning...