The start of cancer treatment can make your home feel different overnight. A chair is no longer just a chair, it might become the place where you rest, cry, nap, sip water, and gather your strength. If you’re trying to prepare home chemotherapy support before treatment begins, don’t aim for perfection. Aim for ease. Whether…
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The Life After Cancer – Learning to Live Again
Cancer doesn’t only affect the body, it can change how you see your life. Many of us run on the same daily rhythms, morning routines, exercise, getting ready, showing up. We also take our energy for granted. Then, one day, it’s gone or it’s different. Even when you’re grateful to be alive, you can still…
Read moreThe Weight of a Hand on Your Shoulder—and Other Small Miracles
A hand rests on your shoulder, and you don’t flinch. Something settles in, a warmth that needs no words, a quiet promise that you’re not doing this alone. In that simple weight, light on bone and cloth, there’s more comfort than a thousand careful sentences. Your breath slows. Your shoulders drop half an inch. You…
Read moreHi. I sit in a hospital room at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. My bone marrow cancer returned. It chose now for another round. My counts stay low. Yet they trend up in a way that worries me. What cancer defies a cure but yields to steady management? We fight to keep counts down. That buys time with family and friends. Do you see the quiet courage there?
Hi. I sit in a hospital room at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. My bone marrow cancer returned. It chose now for another round. My counts stay low. Yet they trend up in a way that worries me. What cancer defies a cure but yields to steady management? We fight to keep counts down….
Read moreThe exact words I use to tell friends what to say (and what not to say) after a cancer update
After a cancer update, silence can feel like a closed door. But the wrong words can feel like someone barging in, moving your furniture, and telling you where your fear should go. If you’re the one living with Cancer, you already carry enough. You shouldn’t also have to coach everyone in your life through their…
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