When I first was diagnosed with cancer, I kept thinking, what are the odds? If you have a tumor in your throat, there's a 95% chance that it is NOT cancer. Then out of that 5%, even with a biopsy saying it is "suspicious" of cancer, there is still just a 50% chance that it …
Month: October 2021
High-School Superlatives; First to Get Cancer
When you graduate high school, you and your friends often still keep tabs on the people from your graduation class for years to come. We text each other when we see someone got married, someone moved abroad, when someone has a baby, etc. You see who the first people are to start a family, the …
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Encouraging Scripture
“Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” -Proverbs 3:3 This verse stuck out to me due to the use of the word “neck”. Bind them around your neck. As I literally had bandages around my freshly, surgically-cut neck, I sat humbled in …
Bright Spots
The biggest blessings I received during this time all revolve around the theme of feeling cared for and thought of. Here are some big ones that stuck out as beautiful bright spots during the dark times. Check-In Texts This wins, hands down, and is the simplest of things. All it took was seeing “hey bud, …
Choosing to Share My Story
This part of my cancer experience, the "coming out", was kind of a touchy one. Who do I tell? How do I tell? Do I even tell? I felt like a fraud to hold it in. How could I carry on posting like normal and withhold such a life-altering event? So I wrote out my …
Post-Op: Thyroidectomy
New Years Day, 2021 began with a bang. Although I left my cancerous thyroid in 2020, the real recovery and cancer journey had just begun. The awful blood bag that was pinned to my chest was removed the next morning after my thyroidectomy. I was instructed on which medicine and vitamins to take and what …
Surgery Day
I can still vividly recall the nausea and anxiety that I felt that night before my surgery. There were a few tears as I watched the time slowly creep closer and closer to my early morning wake-up call. When I woke up a few hours later, the nerves were still there. I put on my …
Loneliness in Illness
You can have the best, most supportive friends and family and still feel lonely while going through cancer. It's the realization that no one can do this for you, and that no one is as affected as you are. I think it hit me most that even after I had a really good, deep conversation …
The "Good" Cancer 