I can remember the first day I was admitted to the hospital. It had been only hours since my diagnosis and there were doctors and nurses everywhere. Before I knew it, I was taking what seemed like an unlimited number of pills and had three IV lines running at the same time. As a personContinueContinue reading “Medical Terminology Decoded”
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Environmental Dangers: Social and Political Influences and Diet
When we are dealing with disease, it is very safe to say diet plays a big role. Whether that be in how we got sick or how we get and stay healthy again, a healthy diet is synonymous with a healthy body. Therefore, especially when we have a scare, we may be inclined to makeContinueContinue reading “Environmental Dangers: Social and Political Influences and Diet”
Environmental Dangers: What Have I Done to Myself?
It’s really important to highlight how different countries view different human and environmental dangers so I will provide tons of links to credible websites which evidence the information I am sharing. Before getting into how the world around us is contributing to our declining health, let’s look at what we may be doing to ourselves. SIDEBAR! Let’s be clear about declining health, we have TONS of pharmaceutical options out there to MANAGE disease. For example, it is estimated that by 2025 we will see a 44% increase in the number of Canadians living with diabetes (Diabetes Canada). As of 2015, there were more than 25 approved diabetes drugs in Canada to manage this condition (Canadian Diabetes Association. Instead, I am referring to…
Chemotherapy Side Effects Suck! Here Are Some Tricks to Help
In May of 2018, six months post diagnosis, if you had asked me where I thought I would be in my recovery, I would have said, ‘preparing for my return to work’. I would have told you that I brilliantly and practically, planned to have one of my daughters, Victoria, home with me through out the summer and it was the perfect way for she and I to reconnect after a challenging number of months since my diagnosis of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia. I would have told you, ‘Heck ya I have the energy to keep up, and I am in great spirits and we will laugh and play so much in the summer sun’. That is NOT how the summer went.
Here’s a few things you can do to help manage your side effects too.
How Cancer Healed My Relationship
Marvin and I were together for one year before we experienced our first trauma together. It was a sudden loss neither of us expected at and was our first lesson in how we would manage life’s speed bumps as partners. I was torn up, sad, mad and my coping strategy has always been hiding behind anger and independence. He was torn up, sad, mad and his coping strategy was to withdraw. It was the start of a very lonely time in our relationship. Over the course of the next 17 months, we experienced two more traumas. Again, unexpected life events that were like being hit by a freight train, spinning around still on the tracks and being smoked by the train coming the other way too.
We realized somewhere in between these events, maybe after the third, that something wasn’t working for us.
So You've Got Cancer 