CRAB. Is It Seafood or a Medical Term?

March is Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month, and every year it gives me a moment to pause and reflect on this journey I never expected to be on. It is also a time when I try to educate others about this disease because many people have never even heard the words...

The Sweetest Gift During Cancer: A Daily Prayer Card

A cancer diagnosis is a life-altering experience. But telling your best friend that you have the Big C is earth-shattering.   Soon after my whirlwind diagnosis, I called her up on a Sunday afternoon. I attempted to be my happy-go-lucky self. But that plan quickly...

To My Treatment Self

Rest is part of treatment. Not a reward. Not a weakness. Not something I have to earn.Rest is healing.If my body asks for stillness, I will not argue with it. My labs do not define me. They guide the doctors. They inform decisions.But they do not measure my...

An open letter to my newly diagnosed self.

March is Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month. This is my open letter to the woman who just got diagnosed. Dear Tee,(my newly diagnosed self) Girl… I know you are scared out of your mind right now. The tears will not stop. You cannot even process the words“You have...