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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Cancer Scares Leading to Diagnosis
I've decided that before I jump into my experience with thyroid cancer, I should give a little bit of context on my medical history. I have faced several cancer scares before. The first one was the summer before my junior year of college when I discovered a lump in my breast. I rushed to a …
“Young and Healthy”
The first time I had to check “yes” to having a history of cancer, it felt like a punch in the gut. You’re immediately put in this high risk box. You can visibly see your doctors eyes light up when you mention that six letter word as they think, "Well this case just got more …
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 