Reading Time: 3 minutes Beginning college, I had no idea what psychologists did or why anyone would want to become one. When one of my classes was unexpectedly canceled and an Introductory Psychology class […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Here is my Ovarian Cancer story 🦋 On October 6th, 2022, I ended up in the emergency room for an issue unrelated to Ovarian Cancer. Since I started puberty at
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The year was 2013 when I first heard of MRD (minimal residual disease). I was about 5 years post my initial cancer diagnosis, dealing with recurrence #1, and on the
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Reading Time: 2 minutes As a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida in Educational Leadership, I would have considered myself a traditional student. I volunteered in community equitable education missions, served as a
Reading Time: < 1 minute Charisse shares her story at our 2024 Atlanta Takeover Storytelling Open Mic.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why? 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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Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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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Reading Time: 3 minutes 2020 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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Reading Time: 3 minutes This 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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Reading Time: 2 minutes I 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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