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A Journey Through Uncertainty: Growing Up Amidst My Mother’s Battle with Cancer
Growing up, my world was painted in shades of curiosity and vulnerability. As a child, I often wandered through the kaleidoscope of life, eager to explore all its nooks and crannies. But the most̷...
Grief, Grace, and Grit
“Steve, your biopsy is out—you have osteosarcoma.” Those words still echo in my mind every single day. That moment changed everything. I remember the shock, the fear, the overwhelming uncertaint...
When Life Sends a Message, Pay Attention
In the world of bladder cancer survivors, I had the thing we all fear the most—a recurrence. I was seven years post-successful immunotherapy treatment and there it was: another tumor, followed by...
Finding Light in the Darkness
When I heard the words, “You have cancer,” my world stopped. I felt numb—overwhelmed by an avalanche of thoughts I couldn’t process. I’m going to die, I kept thinking. My mind spiraled to my...
A Journey of Resilience and Advocacy
At the age of 40, I was diagnosed with stage 1A1 cervical cancer. I underwent a radical trachelectomy—rather than a total hysterectomy—because the doctors wanted to save my ovaries. I was also pre...
From Silence to Self-Acceptance
I first learned about my abuela Cuca’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis years after she’d passed… This wasn’t a new occurrence — feeling lost amid my family’s silence. We ha...