Advice: Facing Cancer as a Teenager

To be a teenager is to be stuck in limbo. You are too old to be treated like a child, but too young to make completely independent adult decisions. When I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at 19 years old, I realized that teenage limbo is much more complex...

Why I Blog About My Illness

  If I were to look back at my past and think about activities that I really enjoyed, writing would not be anywhere on the list. In fact I would say that it actually would be on the least liked list. And it was possibly on the list of things that I don’t do...