Intro to Speak on Cancer Blog

It's the one thing people are most afraid of, for friends, for family, for others, and for themselves. Everyone is afraid of having cancer, of any sort, but a lot of people are afraid of what they don't know, such as the experiences a person goes through when experiencing having cancer, the treatments that follow, and living life afterward as a survivor. It’s true that it’s an arduous trial to be given, but with support and the will, having cancer can be made a lot easier to handle.


I'm going to let the cat out of the bag. I was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma and T-cell leukemia just a few years back. I am now cancer free and living life just as anyone else does, with some minor complications that I don't even know if they are tied to having cancer or not. I have a girlfriend, I have a job, I go to college, I have hobbies, and most of all, I have a life. Having had cancer is a large part of my life, but it's not everything. I still have my control over the next "x" amount of years of my life, which I plan on living to the fullest.

I've created this blog to share some of the experiences I've had with cancer, to outreach to anyone who is interested in learning more about those experiences or talking about them, and to support others who are also faced with this adversity, whether it'd be a patient or family or friend of one.

I learned from my experiences, how special it was, how comforting, and how alleviating it was to have someone else to talk to and to empathize with during such trialing times. I can’t put into words how much that meant to me personally when I had someone to talk to and to always have family and support. I started to do the same for other patients and asked how it affected them. They all said something similar to what I had felt, that it had helped them through their day to day struggle to survive.

My goal with this blog is to provide what others provided for me: support, information, and just somebody to talk to.