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Book Synopsis Fighting Cancer No Holds Barred Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Fighting Cancer No Holds Barred Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Cancers Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Book Synopsis Nobody Fights Alone Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Nobody Fights Alone Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilac Ribbon for All Cancers Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Book Synopsis Cancer Warrior Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Cancer Warrior Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breast Cancer Triple Negative Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Book Synopsis Cancer Warrior We Can Do It by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Cancer Warrior We Can Do It written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer. Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Book Synopsis CANCER ! My Fight Story Journal by : A. D Cancer Publishing
Download or read book CANCER ! My Fight Story Journal written by A. D Cancer Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This blank lined journal is Inspirational and perfect gift ideas for cancer fighters/patients/survivors in World Cancer Day, International Children's Cancer Day. Give them the motivation to keep going and help to believe that cancer does not have to be a trauma. Perfect to write down cancer journey or keep track of doctors' appointments, chemotherapy, radiation treatment: Features: 120 Lined White Pages Matte Finish Cover 6x9 Inch Composition Notebook Journal Can Be Used as a Notebook, Journal, Diary or Composition Book Check out more of our notebooks, journals, and planners by clicking on our Author name above
Book Synopsis Believe Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Believe Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer. Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Book Synopsis You Are Stronger Than You Imagine: Health and Cancer Journal by : Younique Studios Journals
Download or read book You Are Stronger Than You Imagine: Health and Cancer Journal written by Younique Studios Journals and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHEMO JOURNAL NOTEBOOK FOR WOMEN & MEN - THE PERFECT CANCER GIFT ✓ Chemotherapy Journal Daily Organizer: Made to Help You Fight Cancer Day by Day. ✓ Excellent spacing: You can add any notes about appointments between chemo treatments. ✓ Chemo Schedules Notebook: Ideal choice for keeping track of chemo stuff. ✓ Very Helpful Chemo Journal: Recording in-depth Exercise, Food & Drink, Sleep, Gratitude, Notes, and even your Daily Chemo Medications. ✓ This Chemotherapy journal makes a great gift for someone who has been diagnosed with cancer, cancer survivors, oncologists, health practitioners. Improve your health with this simply designed daily planner. Unique daily tracking for those who want to get a little more organized in their cancer journey! Limited-Edition Unique Chemo Diary and Journal Everyday Planning Great for students, teachers, parents, and cancer patients. Ideal size great for your bag, backpack, or briefcase. Beautiful Matte finish, smooth, feels good in the hand. Daily planning to keep all your chemotherapy treatments, organized. 6" x 9" daily planner with 101 pages.
Book Synopsis Believe Day by Day Journal Diary of My Cancer Journey by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Believe Day by Day Journal Diary of My Cancer Journey written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Ribbon for Breast Cancer patients who do Yoga as additional Therapy. Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Download or read book Kicking Cancer's Ass written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a six month undated journal of your cancer journey. 184 pages, in day by day format, for your to record your appointments in, questions to ask your medical team, medication notes. Space for notes, too - add your own inspirational quotes and remember, keep going. You can, and will win. Never give up...
Download or read book Relentlesshope written by Suess Karlsson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless Hope journals are for anyone living with cancer - created by a cancer survivor who understands the journey. If you have begun this journey, this journal will help carry you through. The Relentless Hope Journal is an excellent GIFT to give to someone recently diagnosed, to one who has relapsed, or to a cancer warrior who is journeying a 2nd or 3rd time with cancer. With the Relentless Hope Journals you will find questions to answer, memories to share, a place to write your dreams as well as your questions. A simple exercise leads you in developing your own power statement. Cancer has power, but we can choose our response. We can choose to fight it with joy & hope. The journal pages provide over 300 pages of space for customization. Your scribbling. Your doodles. Your emotions. Your beliefs & thoughts. Each section has one sentence regarding one aspect of life. You will create your own mantra to whisper, scream, utter and cling. This journal is flexible. You write the dates. You fill in the blanks. You re-visit any page as often as you desire. Start anywhere. Blank pages are deliberate, as your journey needs different scenes. Be lengthy. Be concise. Add and take away. Begin and end at random. I know what it is like to live with cancer. At 43 years of age, in 2006, a healthy, active, vibrant woman I joined the leagues of cancer patients or warriors. Diagnosed with Stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma / Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, my world literally transformed over the course of a few days. Ironically, the average person with SLL/CLL is over 75 years of age and male. You can imagine my thoughts (crazy, angry, stunned, surreal, and disbelieving) as a 43 year-old female. Cancer then is not a respecter of gender, age, profession or nationality. Cancer pops up un-expectantly and usually with a cruel vengeance. Cancer sucks and I well understand it is not an easy journey. After never ending blood-work my priorities altered. My schedule rearranged and a new world of cancer knowledge came at me regarding prognosis, diagnosis and treatment options. Thirteen days after my diagnosis, chemotherapy began. Chemotherapy evolved into a 2½ year regime. Thirteen days is a very short time to adjust to a new normal. What happened next to me is common to all cancer warriors. Flurries of testing, emotions, family, friends, work details, questions, information, emotions, fears, faith, anger and thoughts of the future intertwined & overwhelmed. Oh, I remember how I longed and ached for a space to write as I journeyed with cancer. I found no journal that understood that life after cancer is vastly different than life before cancer. I needed to express my anger, laugh at my "humanness" and embrace the process of learning to live with cancer. For me, somewhere between the chaotic busyness of waiting - "hurry up and wait" - and the stillness of the night, my thoughts of lifeBefore Cancer and lifeAfter Cancer collided. A raging war began within me as to how I would live. My first day of chemo heightened the tension. My first day of chemo changed my life forever. From that first chemo day, I decided and declared aloud to anyone who would hear: I was not dying from cancer but going to life with it. Live with . . .relentlessHOPE as my mantra. At this writing in 2014, I am 7 years in remission. Living with the knowledge that SLL / CLL has a 100% relapse rate. Living with the knowledge that any morning could be another journey into active disease. YET, yet, yet ("yet' is a very beautiful word) I am living within the knowledge & power of relentlessHOPE! My hope for you? . . . that if you are forced to journey with cancer, that you will also journey with relentlessHOPE. Suess Karlsson
Book Synopsis Kicking Cancer to the Kerb Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey by : Dee Mack
Download or read book Kicking Cancer to the Kerb Day by Day Journal/Diary of My Cancer Journey written by Dee Mack and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilac Ribbon for All Cancers Journal Diary of my Cancer Journey. 189 pages undated diary to log appointments, chemo and radiotherapy, as well as scans. Questions to ask your Cancer Team, notes on medication, and plenty of space to make notes of priorities that you have to do on a given day. Excellent companion to help you keep on track and up to date .
Download or read book Relentlesshope written by Suess Karlsson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless Hope journals are for anyone living with cancer - created by a cancer survivor who understands the journey. If you have begun this journey, this journal will help carry you through. The Relentless Hope Journal is an excellent GIFT to give to someone recently diagnosed, to one who has relapsed, or to a cancer warrior who is journeying a 2nd or 3rd time with cancer. With the Relentless Hope Journals you will find questions to answer, memories to share, a place to write your dreams as well as your questions. A simple exercise leads you in developing your own power statement. Cancer has power, but we can choose our response. We can choose to fight it with joy & hope. The journal pages provide over 300 pages of space for customization. Your scribbling. Your doodles. Your emotions. Your beliefs & thoughts. Each section has one sentence regarding one aspect of life. You will create your own mantra to whisper, scream, utter and cling. This journal is flexible. You write the dates. You fill in the blanks. You re-visit any page as often as you desire. Start anywhere. Blank pages are deliberate, as your journey needs different scenes. Be lengthy. Be concise. Add and take away. Begin and end at random. I know what it is like to live with cancer. At 43 years of age, in 2006, a healthy, active, vibrant woman I joined the leagues of cancer patients or warriors. Diagnosed with Stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma / Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, my world literally transformed over the course of a few days. Ironically, the average person with SLL/CLL is over 75 years of age and male. You can imagine my thoughts (crazy, angry, stunned, surreal, and disbelieving) as a 43 year-old female. Cancer then is not a respecter of gender, age, profession or nationality. Cancer pops up un-expectantly and usually with a cruel vengeance. Cancer sucks and I well understand it is not an easy journey. After never ending blood-work my priorities altered. My schedule rearranged and a new world of cancer knowledge came at me regarding prognosis, diagnosis and treatment options. Thirteen days after my diagnosis, chemotherapy began. Chemotherapy evolved into a 2½ year regime. Thirteen days is a very short time to adjust to a new normal. What happened next to me is common to all cancer warriors. Flurries of testing, emotions, family, friends, work details, questions, information, emotions, fears, faith, anger and thoughts of the future intertwined & overwhelmed. Oh, I remember how I longed and ached for a space to write as I journeyed with cancer. I found no journal that understood that life after cancer is vastly different than life before cancer. I needed to express my anger, laugh at my "humanness" and embrace the process of learning to live with cancer. For me, somewhere between the chaotic busyness of waiting - "hurry up and wait" - and the stillness of the night, my thoughts of lifeBefore Cancer and lifeAfter Cancer collided. A raging war began within me as to how I would live. My first day of chemo heightened the tension. My first day of chemo changed my life forever. From that first chemo day, I decided and declared aloud to anyone who would hear: I was not dying from cancer but going to life with it. Live with . . .relentlessHOPE as my mantra. At this writing in 2014, I am 7 years in remission. Living with the knowledge that SLL / CLL has a 100% relapse rate. Living with the knowledge that any morning could be another journey into active disease. YET, yet, yet ("yet' is a very beautiful word) I am living within the knowledge & power of relentlessHOPE! My hope for you? . . . that if you are forced to journey with cancer, that you will also journey with relentlessHOPE. Suess Karlsson
Download or read book Relentlesshope written by Suess Karlsson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless Hope journals are for anyone living with cancer - created by a cancer survivor who understands the journey. If you have begun this journey, this journal will help carry you through. The Relentless Hope Journal is an excellent GIFT to give to someone recently diagnosed, to one who has relapsed, or to a cancer warrior who is journeying a 2nd or 3rd time with cancer. With the Relentless Hope Journals you will find questions to answer, memories to share, a place to write your dreams as well as your questions. A simple exercise leads you in developing your own power statement. Cancer has power, but we can choose our response. We can choose to fight it with joy & hope. The journal pages provide over 300 pages of space for customization. Your scribbling. Your doodles. Your emotions. Your beliefs & thoughts. Each section has one sentence regarding one aspect of life. You will create your own mantra to whisper, scream, utter and cling. This journal is flexible. You write the dates. You fill in the blanks. You re-visit any page as often as you desire. Start anywhere. Blank pages are deliberate, as your journey needs different scenes. Be lengthy. Be concise. Add and take away. Begin and end at random. I know what it is like to live with cancer. At 43 years of age, in 2006, a healthy, active, vibrant woman I joined the leagues of cancer patients or warriors. Diagnosed with Stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma / Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, my world literally transformed over the course of a few days. Ironically, the average person with SLL/CLL is over 75 years of age and male. You can imagine my thoughts (crazy, angry, stunned, surreal, and disbelieving) as a 43 year-old female. Cancer then is not a respecter of gender, age, profession or nationality. Cancer pops up un-expectantly and usually with a cruel vengeance. Cancer sucks and I well understand it is not an easy journey. After never ending blood-work my priorities altered. My schedule rearranged and a new world of cancer knowledge came at me regarding prognosis, diagnosis and treatment options. Thirteen days after my diagnosis, chemotherapy began. Chemotherapy evolved into a 2½ year regime. Thirteen days is a very short time to adjust to a new normal. What happened next to me is common to all cancer warriors. Flurries of testing, emotions, family, friends, work details, questions, information, emotions, fears, faith, anger and thoughts of the future intertwined & overwhelmed. Oh, I remember how I longed and ached for a space to write as I journeyed with cancer. I found no journal that understood that life after cancer is vastly different than life before cancer. I needed to express my anger, laugh at my "humanness" and embrace the process of learning to live with cancer. For me, somewhere between the chaotic busyness of waiting - "hurry up and wait" - and the stillness of the night, my thoughts of lifeBefore Cancer and lifeAfter Cancer collided. A raging war began within me as to how I would live. My first day of chemo heightened the tension. My first day of chemo changed my life forever. From that first chemo day, I decided and declared aloud to anyone who would hear: I was not dying from cancer but going to life with it. Live with . . .relentlessHOPE as my mantra. At this writing in 2014, I am 7 years in remission. Living with the knowledge that SLL / CLL has a 100% relapse rate. Living with the knowledge that any morning could be another journey into active disease. YET, yet, yet ("yet' is a very beautiful word) I am living within the knowledge & power of relentlessHOPE! My hope for you? . . . that if you are forced to journey with cancer, that you will also journey with relentlessHOPE. Suess Karlsson
Book Synopsis My Cancer Journal by : Melanie Green
Download or read book My Cancer Journal written by Melanie Green and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 've been there - I know you are scared. When you are first diagnosed with cancer, processing all of the emotions can be so overwhelming. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, something that really helped me was writing and that is why I created this journal for YOU. My Cancer Journal is a safe space for you to make sense of the chaos by writing down all of your thoughts and feelings, including anger, fear, and disbelief, but also humour and gratitude (I know right - you can't imagine ever feeling gratitude again... but you will). Use this journal however feels right for you. There is space to write, draw, doodle, or stick things in. There are drawings to colour or puzzles to keep your brain occupied in the waiting room. There are diary prompts and mindfulness exercises. There is space for all the practical, admin stuff that will seem really overwhelming, so it's good to have one place to record it all - appointments, questions, symptoms and side-effects - all the fun stuff. Keeping on top of the day-to-day 'stuff' will hopefully allow you time to be creative and be free to express your emotions, both the positive and negative feelings. There is no right or wrong way to deal with a cancer diagnosis, there is just YOUR way. My Cancer Journal would make a great gift for a loved one who has been recently diagnosed. It's nigh on impossible to know how to really help or what to say. By letting them know you care, you are there whenever they need you, you understand they may need time and space to process the devastating sentence 'I'm afraid is cancer', shows how much they mean to you. Everyone's story is unique. That's what makes us special. One story is not more important than another, just different. You can read my story in my memoir But Seriously, Who Knew?
Download or read book Relentlesshope written by Suess Karlsson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless Hope journals are for anyone living with cancer - created by a cancer survivor who understands the journey. If you have begun this journey, this journal will help carry you through. The Relentless Hope Journal is an excellent GIFT to give to someone recently diagnosed, to one who has relapsed, or to a cancer warrior who is journeying a 2nd or 3rd time with cancer. With the Relentless Hope Journals you will find questions to answer, memories to share, a place to write your dreams as well as your questions. A simple exercise leads you in developing your own power statement. Cancer has power, but we can choose our response. We can choose to fight it with joy & hope. The journal pages provide over 300 pages of space for customization. Your scribbling. Your doodles. Your emotions. Your beliefs & thoughts. Each section has one sentence regarding one aspect of life. You will create your own mantra to whisper, scream, utter and cling. This journal is flexible. You write the dates. You fill in the blanks. You re-visit any page as often as you desire. Start anywhere. Blank pages are deliberate, as your journey needs different scenes. Be lengthy. Be concise. Add and take away. Begin and end at random. I know what it is like to live with cancer. At 43 years of age, in 2006, a healthy, active, vibrant woman I joined the leagues of cancer patients or warriors. Diagnosed with Stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma / Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, my world literally transformed over the course of a few days. Ironically, the average person with SLL/CLL is over 75 years of age and male. You can imagine my thoughts (crazy, angry, stunned, surreal, and disbelieving) as a 43 year-old female. Cancer then is not a respecter of gender, age, profession or nationality. Cancer pops up un-expectantly and usually with a cruel vengeance. Cancer sucks and I well understand it is not an easy journey. After never ending blood-work my priorities altered. My schedule rearranged and a new world of cancer knowledge came at me regarding prognosis, diagnosis and treatment options. Thirteen days after my diagnosis, chemotherapy began. Chemotherapy evolved into a 2½ year regime. Thirteen days is a very short time to adjust to a new normal. What happened next to me is common to all cancer warriors. Flurries of testing, emotions, family, friends, work details, questions, information, emotions, fears, faith, anger and thoughts of the future intertwined & overwhelmed. Oh, I remember how I longed and ached for a space to write as I journeyed with cancer. I found no journal that understood that life after cancer is vastly different than life before cancer. I needed to express my anger, laugh at my "humanness" and embrace the process of learning to live with cancer. For me, somewhere between the chaotic busyness of waiting - "hurry up and wait" - and the stillness of the night, my thoughts of lifeBefore Cancer and lifeAfter Cancer collided. A raging war began within me as to how I would live. My first day of chemo heightened the tension. My first day of chemo changed my life forever. From that first chemo day, I decided and declared aloud to anyone who would hear: I was not dying from cancer but going to life with it. Live with . . .relentlessHOPE as my mantra. At this writing in 2014, I am 7 years in remission. Living with the knowledge that SLL / CLL has a 100% relapse rate. Living with the knowledge that any morning could be another journey into active disease. YET, yet, yet ("yet' is a very beautiful word) I am living within the knowledge & power of relentlessHOPE! My hope for you? . . . that if you are forced to journey with cancer, that you will also journey with relentlessHOPE. Suess Karlsson
Book Synopsis My Daily Cancer Journal by : Purple Therapy
Download or read book My Daily Cancer Journal written by Purple Therapy and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cancer journal is for those who are still having cancer treatment or who have completed their treatment. It is a journal of encouragement to help them/you see the small things in life that they/you can still enjoy. This book was designed by someone 10 years post chemotherapy treatment for Lymphoma.............me. As you don't have control over the fact that you do have cancer what you want is often some control........over anything ........no matter how small ! Whether it is when you shave your head due to hair loss so you can decide when you lose all your hair ......or what hat to wear today..........these small things give you back a little control over your life. This journal is a distraction from what you/they maybe going through by noting and being 'Mindful' of the good things that you/they notice throughout the day. It can be as small as a lovely cup of coffee......or enjoying colouring a picture...or having an enjoyable conversation. All the small things can add up to several things you enjoyed......enjoying things and seeing positive things in your life is very important when you are going through treatment or starting again after treatment. This book is about taking back control over anything and everything you/they can and noting it. It then can be read on days when you/they don't feel like they can do so much..........the good days can be reviewed from the journal. It is a good size at 8 X 10 inches with 100 pages. Inside it prompts and suggests what you could write about, the inner frontpage states 'when I decide to enjoy the little things in my day I am in control of the small stuff!! My name is:___________ and I am a WARRIOR !!'. The last page inside the journal has pictures of things you could enjoy daily for further prompts of what to write, the back page states 'Look what I have enjoyed today and every day. ******PLEASE LOOK INSIDE***** It has a glossy front cover which carries on the sentiment that the person who is on their cancer journey is actually a 'Warrior' and not a survivor ! Fighting cancer...and it is a fight means each and everyone who has been on this journey is like me a 'Warrior'. This is in a hope of turning the idea away from being a 'victim of cancer'.
Download or read book Relentlesshope written by Suess Karlsson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relentless Hope journals are for anyone living with cancer - created by a cancer survivor who understands the journey. If you have begun this journey, this journal will help carry you through. The Relentless Hope Journal is an excellent GIFT to give to someone recently diagnosed, to one who has relapsed, or to a cancer warrior who is journeying a 2nd or 3rd time with cancer. With the Relentless Hope Journals you will find questions to answer, memories to share, a place to write your dreams as well as your questions. A simple exercise leads you in developing your own power statement. Cancer has power, but we can choose our response. We can choose to fight it with joy & hope. The journal pages provide over 300 pages of space for customization. Your scribbling. Your doodles. Your emotions. Your beliefs & thoughts. Each section has one sentence regarding one aspect of life. You will create your own mantra to whisper, scream, utter and cling. This journal is flexible. You write the dates. You fill in the blanks. You re-visit any page as often as you desire. Start anywhere. Blank pages are deliberate, as your journey needs different scenes. Be lengthy. Be concise. Add and take away. Begin and end at random. I know what it is like to live with cancer. At 43 years of age, in 2006, a healthy, active, vibrant woman I joined the leagues of cancer patients or warriors. Diagnosed with Stage 4 Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma / Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, my world literally transformed over the course of a few days. Ironically, the average person with SLL/CLL is over 75 years of age and male. You can imagine my thoughts (crazy, angry, stunned, surreal, and disbelieving) as a 43 year-old female. Cancer then is not a respecter of gender, age, profession or nationality. Cancer pops up un-expectantly and usually with a cruel vengeance. Cancer sucks and I well understand it is not an easy journey. After never ending blood-work my priorities altered. My schedule rearranged and a new world of cancer knowledge came at me regarding prognosis, diagnosis and treatment options. Thirteen days after my diagnosis, chemotherapy began. Chemotherapy evolved into a 2½ year regime. Thirteen days is a very short time to adjust to a new normal. What happened next to me is common to all cancer warriors. Flurries of testing, emotions, family, friends, work details, questions, information, emotions, fears, faith, anger and thoughts of the future intertwined & overwhelmed. Oh, I remember how I longed and ached for a space to write as I journeyed with cancer. I found no journal that understood that life after cancer is vastly different than life before cancer. I needed to express my anger, laugh at my "humanness" and embrace the process of learning to live with cancer. For me, somewhere between the chaotic busyness of waiting - "hurry up and wait" - and the stillness of the night, my thoughts of lifeBefore Cancer and lifeAfter Cancer collided. A raging war began within me as to how I would live. My first day of chemo heightened the tension. My first day of chemo changed my life forever. From that first chemo day, I decided and declared aloud to anyone who would hear: I was not dying from cancer but going to life with it. Live with . . .relentlessHOPE as my mantra. At this writing in 2014, I am 7 years in remission. Living with the knowledge that SLL / CLL has a 100% relapse rate. Living with the knowledge that any morning could be another journey into active disease. YET, yet, yet ("yet' is a very beautiful word) I am living within the knowledge & power of relentlessHOPE! My hope for you? . . . that if you are forced to journey with cancer, that you will also journey with relentlessHOPE. Suess Karlsson
