A ‘Being Childfree’ guest post
“There seems to be no shame in asking people if they have children, and even asking why they don’t have children, but oddly, there seems to be a taboo in me responding to the question with “I have terminal…
Category: Metastatic Cancer
4 years ago today
4 years ago today, a 35-year-old version of me, with beautiful long hair and all the energy in the world, sat in a room and listened as a friendly surgeon and a kind nurse told her she had breast cancer….
Scanxiety
I’m not sleeping well right now, but I know this machine and what it’ll tell us is the reason why. Waiting for scan results is hard. But it’s also hard to explain to people that are not in this world………
Treatment, scans and a lack of advocacy for Stage IV cancer
View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝔼𝕞 | 𝕆𝕙 𝔾𝕠𝕤𝕙 (@ohgoshem) on Jun 18, 2020 at 4:09am PDT It’s treatment AND scan day today. So many friends have commented that it’s come round quick. And it has….
Tips for surviving social self isolation from a cancer thriver
I’ve been seeing so many posts about people freaking out about having to socially self isolate, and I’m sure people have lots of valid reasons to be scared, but for a lot of us on here with cancer, isolating ourselves…