I’m not gonna lie. I had sincerely hoped to spend Christmas with family this year. Last Christmas was the worst Christmas on record for me….
There is no wishing cancer away. Some cancers can be cured and treated medically. For other cancers, everyone knows the ending. Knowing that, what choices…
Everything I know about how to be supportive I learned from James. He had a knack for it. Friends, even my girlfriends, would call and…
Believe it or not, I am keeping this story as condensed as possible. I’m skipping over episodes and details, just keeping the broad strokes. To…
Part one of this cancer series points out how insidious cancer can be, especially a cancer like multiple myeloma. After seven cycles of a five-week…
Multiple myeloma always returns. It is treatable only, not curable. Knowing it could come back means you’re always waiting… every trip to the clinic… What’s…
In Ontario, chemotherapy is administered in clinics dedicated to cancer. The waiting area is always crowded with patients and families. All those people are there for…
As I was telling our cancer story in these weekly instalments, the cancer itself rudely interrupted back into our lives. For those of you who…
They say the present frames the past. I am reminded that I am looking back on a cancer journey that has not yet ended. There…
After spending two weeks flat on his back, determined not to move, the physiotherapists advanced on my husband with enthusiasm. His leg had been repaired…