Grieving After Your Cancer Diagnosis

Reading Time: 2 minutesWell, it’s September 1st, which means it’s now Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month. It is also my 8th month of having cancer. There are a lot of thoughts that come into

The Confusing Promised Land of Leukemia Maintenance

Reading Time: 3 minutesI remember it like it was yesterday. I was lying in my childhood bed watching Chopped on Food Network—any competition show with a simple story arc was all that could

ACC Messed with the Wrong Person

Reading Time: 2 minutesI was a student teaching as a second-semester senior at Mercyhurst University when everything changed. I had a meeting and dinner with a handful of friends, everyone was socially distanced

Let’s Get This Burger: 300 Days Without Food

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I hit day 300 without anything to eat or drink. At age 22, I was living in Hawaii with my military boyfriend and getting ready to move to

My Two Cancers

Reading Time: 2 minutesSorry, this won’t be a fun, inspirational movie story… but here we go anyway. My name is Selena and I’m 21 years old. Back in August 2016, after 8 years

A Day I’ll Never Forget

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt was July 1, 2020, during a global pandemic. I was anxiously sitting in the doctor’s office with my husband waiting for the oncologist to come in, confirm, and provide

The Day I Flew

Reading Time: 3 minutesJuly 15, 2020 Waking up in the morning and not knowing how I was going to feel has become common over the past 14 months. I have been receiving treatment