It feels like a good time to give thanks for another year. As 2019 approaches, I’m ready for another chance to…

This month marks another milestone in my life post-cancer: My mediport is coming out, and if all goes as planned, this will be the least stressful surgery I’ve had in the last year and a half.

Every time I look at the 13-inch scar that stretches from the top of my thigh to the top of my calf I’m reminded of where I’ve been and where I’m going. I think of the surgeon who removed a malignant tumor from my bone and replaced…

I’ve been spending a lot of time in the pediatric ward at my cancer treatment hospital. Because the type of bone cancer I have typically occurs in young adults, I’ve been seeing an oncologist team that specializes in pediatric cancers.

July 12, 2017, was the beginning of the end. It was the day I finally started to see an end to my nearly yearlong fight with cancer coming. It marked my first chemotherapy treatment at the hospital I…