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Day 0 - Diagnosis
Now we all know that UHS (University Health Services) is world renowned for its high-quality healthcare. False. I went in on Tuesday and told them that my glands were so swollen, I couldn't speak, eat,...
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Day 13 - Jailbreak
I considered making today's entry simply, "I showered," and leaving it at that, because honestly, I don't think there's anything more important to say.I'll go in order. The doctors came in this morning...
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Day 218 - The End
I don't normally do video posts, but this is a special occasion. I'M DONE!Vocal Point at Relay for Life! <3
View ArticleDay 221 - Adventures Around Dumont
Walking around my neighborhood is getting really boring. I'm starting to know the streets too well. I avoid walking around the curve between Barbara and Forest because there's a dead, rotting squirrel....
View ArticleDay 935 - PUBLISHED!
WHOA. It's been a super long time since I've blogged.I'm 22. I'm a junior in college. I have a new boyfriend. I joined a band. I climbed a mountain. I'm doing cancer research. I raised $6,000 for the...
View ArticleDay 1041 - I'm Bringing Blogging Back
I know what you're thinking, and yes, I used a day counter.I don't know what it was about today that made me decide to revive this blog. NO, I DON'T HAVE CANCER AGAIN. I think it was earlier today when...
View ArticleDay 1046 - Mutated Mutation
Hi world. I'm back with more feelings.I need to give a little background about my project in the lab to put this into context. Like I said in my last post, I work with patient samples of AML. Before I...
View ArticleDay 1048 - I Just Have a Lot of Feelings
Man oh man oh man.I really hope my PI never reads these posts, otherwise he's going to think he's subjecting me to extreme amounts of emotional stress. But that's what I get for voluntarily joining a...
View ArticleDay 1176 - Survivorship
I should've written about this a while ago, but I never got the chance. Now that my hair is back to the length it was before I got sick, I was pretty convinced that the only physical aftermath would be...
View ArticleDay 1237 - Things That Aren't Funny
I've been meaning to write this post for a while. And I'll start by saying that this is NOT meant to be an attack on anyone who's ever said any of these things to me. I make cancer jokes all the time,...
View ArticleDay 1293 - Expressive Writing
There are a lot of reasons I hate my Psychology major, but today we're just going to deal with the fact that it brings back a lot of unwanted memories.I have an exam in my Behavioral Medicine class...
View ArticleDay 1412 - A Whole New Type of Inpatient
Let me just start by saying no, I have not relapsed. This isn't completely about cancer, but it's definitely related, and I think it's an important story that needs to be told, especially if people are...
View ArticleDay 1461 - Synesthesia
Remember when I wrote my epic one-year-later post back in 2012? Well, it's 2015, and today is already my 4th cancerversary. FOUR years. I remember that day like it was yesterday...it's hard to believe...
View ArticleDay 1540 - How Would You Like Your Eggs?
Happy Thanksgiving, internet world! Now that Facebook notifies you about what happened "On This Day" however many years ago, it reminded me that Monday was my 4-year anniversary of being declared in...
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Day 1695 - What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker
I've been meaning to blog for a really long time, but I just haven't felt up to it.Life is difficult.I had started writing a post about my trip to the Long Term Survivorship clinic at Sloan Kettering...
View ArticleDay 1827 - Still Fighting the Good Fight
I feel like I start every cancerversary blog post with, "Wow, I can't believe it's been [insert number] years!"Honestly, I'm starting to get so far removed from my diagnosis and treatment, I sometimes...
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Day 1995 - How to Have a Five-Year Remission Party
This post is longggggg overdue, but with my 3 1/2 jobs and graduate class, I got kind of busy and forgot to blog. But this is too important to ignore!It is official. As of November 23, 2016, I have...
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Day 2557 - Aftermath Adventures
It's getting to the point where I've been in remission long enough that I'm forgetting how many years it's been without thinking about it for a minute. And that's amazing!Although, of course it's not...
View ArticleDay 3113 - Isolation
For the last few days, I've been joking about everyone complaining about needing to quarantine, and I'm like, amateurs! I had to stay in my germ-free bubble for 6 months when I was on chemo! You're...
View ArticleDay 3380 - I'll Be [Staying] Home For Christmas
Exactly 9 years ago, I was in my house in Dumont having a panic attack because my temperature was 100.6०F. It had a whole different meaning back then. A fever while I was neutropenic meant I had to be...
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Day 3728 - An Extra Decade
It feels like just yesterday we had high-microbial foods and a cancer piñata at my five-year remission party, but here we are in 2021...I often have to look up the actual date of my "remission"...
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