Alexa
Reading Time: < 1 minute Alexa shares her story at our 2024 Digital CancerCon Open Mic.
What Deck of Cards Do You Have?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy? That’s the question in some form or another I have asked since December 6th, 2023. Getting diagnosed with cancer, let alone kidney cancer at the age of 32, wasn’t
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Advocating for Myself
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a stage 3A melanoma skin cancer survivor, I’ve learned valuable lessons about self-advocacy during my journey. Looking back, there are two critical points that underscore the importance of advocating
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Cancer Diagnosis: Deja’ Vu
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt was a day I’ll never forget, marking the one-year anniversary of my diagnosis with Polycythemia Vera, a day that seemed cursed with cruel symmetry. Pulmonary hypertension. The words hit
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Cancer, Musical Theatre & Other Chronic Illnesses
Reading Time: 2 minutesI am currently in my 12th year of sole survivorship from a rare Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. From where my brain space landed in that time, I tend to look at cancer
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A Diagnosis That Changed My Life Forever
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was 19 years old, I was diagnosed with Type 2/Stage 2 Hodgkin Lymphoma on June 3, 2016. My life and health was about to take a 360 turn.
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Battling Cancer
Reading Time: 3 minutesNo chance I was expecting the words, “Nitya, these lesions in your abdomen seem like cancer masses,” when I went to the doctor for a stomach ache. Though I was
Surviving Cancer During the Time of Corona
Reading Time: 3 minutes2020 was by far the worst and scariest year of my life. We were all affected by it in some shape or form. While I understand that COVID put our
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Two Years Cancer Free
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis weekend is another milestone in my breast cancer journey. I’ll be cancer free for two years. Queue the celebration music and gifs. These milestones always give me a reason
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It was Never the End
Reading Time: 2 minutesI always thought I wouldn’t make it to 18, wouldn’t make it to see myself graduate, never go to college or have a family of my own. An enemy was
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