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I Decided to Look After Myself First — After Handing in My Resignation
The story of someone who only began caring for herself once she had handed in her resignation. She draws comfort from the smallest scenes — gardenias on the windowsill, a sudden downpour, a line of ducks waddling along the path — and resolves to spend her days being good to herself for once, instead of everyone else.
Diagnosed With a Brain Aneurysm: Do You Need a Big Hospital, and Is It Coiling or Open Surgery?
After a brain aneurysm diagnosis, the two questions people wrestle with most are where to get treated and whether to choose open surgery (clipping) or coil embolization. We break it down by size, location, shape, age, and overall health. In the end, the key is to decide together with the medical team that has actually looked at your images.
Another insurer wants to see other companies' payout records — do I really have to hand them over?
After a cancer diagnosis, a third insurer asked for the payout records from other companies. Here's how to respond. The key points: what underwriting actually needs is your medical diagnostic evidence, not how much another insurer paid you — and you should get every request and every reason for delay in writing.
When Your Insurer Asks You to "Agree to Public MyData" — Is It Safe to Tap Yes?
When you file an insurance claim, the "Public MyData consent" your insurer asks for is a convenience option, not a requirement. Just check exactly what it shares and how far it reaches — and if it leaves you uneasy, you can still submit paper documents the old way.
Are There Targeted Therapies for Pancreatic Cancer? A Guide for Caregivers
For some pancreatic cancer patients, such as those with a BRCA mutation, targeted therapy or maintenance treatment may be an option. A caregiver-focused guide encouraging you to discuss genetic testing with your oncologist.
A long-overdue hello - the days spent at the side of late-stage cancer
A caregiver's check-in from beside a late-stage cancer patient. An emergency room visit over blood in the urine, the worry around switching anticoagulant medication, and the small comforts of daily life, told plainly and honestly.
Told you have melanoma but don't need chemo yet? Here's how to make sense of it
When rectal or anal melanoma turns up by chance and the doctor says "there's no spread, so we won't start chemo right now," what does that actually mean? Here's a patient-side look at how to handle follow-up monitoring and choosing the right department.
How I Start My Morning Changed My Whole Day — On Meal Routines and Belly Breathing
A quiet, personal account of how setting a simple morning routine during treatment (lukewarm water, medication, a warm drink with olive oil, a protein shake) made things less overwhelming — plus a belly-breathing tip that helped with sleep and with CT scans.
A One-Line Prayer for the Morning
A short morning reflection on facing dawn with an aching body, and on shifting the heart from prayers just for myself toward a single line for the person beside me. A story I came to feel anew while fighting illness: that comfort without love is nothing but noise.
Holding On to This One Word Today
A quiet companion-in-faith reflection, written in the early hours of a fight against illness, leaning on Ephesians 6 and its call to "be strong" - to get through one more day not by my own strength but by His.