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 …
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The Little Things
When you're going through surgery and treatments, people sympathize. But the hardest parts are not the big moments. It’s the moments after, when you’re grappling with this new invisible limb, that are the most difficult. Cancer and it's side effects do not go away overnight. It likes to show up in simple and unexpected ways. …
Why the “good” cancer?
“If you had to pick a cancer, this is the one to get.” Cancer can’t be equivocated with the word good, yet so many doctors, friends, and strangers assured me that thyroid cancer was “the good cancer”. As grateful as I am for things not being more serious, I am still saddened and scared by …
The "Good" Cancer 