It feels odd to say that, but truly it has been a pretty positive couple of weeks for me.
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Fear of Recurrence
One of the most common things that cancer patients deal with is the fear of their cancer coming back or spreading. This fear of recurrence causes a lot of anxiety in the cancer community, especially when it comes time for scans, biopsies, and follow up appointments.
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One Year Cancer-versary
One year ago today I received my diagnosis that I had B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. One year ago my world completely changed and turned upside down. One year ago I went from a caregiver to a patient.
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There Are No Words
It has been a while since I have written a blog post. To be honest, I’m not even sure if I’ll finish this one. I’ve had writers block these last two months and with my parents and Luke’s family here I really just wanted to be present while I had them around.
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I Don’t Know Where to Start
I’ve been putting off writing this blog post for a couple weeks now. My heart and my head feel like they are drowning.
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What’s Next?
I have been home for almost a week now and it has been so nice! It’s amazing the difference a good night sleep in your own bed can do.
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Fatigue
I haven’t written a new blog post lately because it’s been a rough week. I’ve been so worn out and I didn’t even know it was possible to feel this kind of fatigue.
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It’s been a long couple days
As the title suggests the last few days have felt quite long and I have not had the mental stamina to keep up with sharing with all of you.
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Keeping Up
I have definitely begun to start feeling some of the effects of my treatment so that is making my daily posts a bit more difficult.
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No seriously, what are the odds that a married couple would develop the same type of leukemia 2 years apart from each other.
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Life, Love, and Leukemia 