The week of my cancer diagnosis, I wandered into a bookstore and perused the self-help section (because if there was ever a time for self-help, it was now). I came across a book called “Full Catastrophe Living” by John Kabat-Zinn. I laughed to myself and thought “Yep that sounds about…

When you get diagnosed with cancer, your first thought is “Oh my god, am I going to die?”, and then your second thought is “Oh my god, am I going to lose my hair?”. You would think that once your life is in danger, you automatically stop caring about superficial…

Sometimes, I’ll be going about my daily business and then all of a sudden it hits me: I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and survived 8 rounds of chemotherapy. From diagnosis to treatment, everything was such a whirlwind. When all the dust finally settled, I was left thinking… did all…

I’ve had a severe phobia of needles for as long as I can remember. I like to think it all began when my sister and I were kids and we discovered a tree in our backyard that had long and (surprisingly) sharp pine needles. We came up with a game…

From the moment I heard the word “cancer”, everything happened so quickly. Like someone hit the fast forward button and couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. Carlos and I had a flight booked to go to Hawaii for a week on August 2nd (for my 27th birthday) and…

Hi! My name is Sarah and I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 26. This is my story. July 2017: I just finished grad school and was on top of the world! It was finally time to move across the country to be with my partner Carlos and to…