There is a kind of silence that feels loud. The clock keeps moving, but your whole life seems to hold its breath. That is what waiting for medical test results often feels like when you…
Guilt can feel like a second illness during Cancer, but it doesn’t get to tell the whole story of your life; you can notice when it drains your energy, name it as unhelpful, and gently…
By Wednesday of my first chemo cycle, I cried in the shower because I dropped the soap. Not because of the soap, of course. My body ached, my mind felt foggy, and my heart carried…
At the end of 6 years, I have given up on the idea of arriving someplace. There will never be a time when I understand everything and can live without fear. I expected to get…
The day you hear the word Cancer, the world shrinks to a few square feet. A room, a chair, a doctor’s voice. Everything else goes fuzzy at the edges. The car you drive, the phone…
