Cancer Diaries: Life is short, eat your tiramisu
FEBRUARY 12 — By the time you read this, I will probably be waiting for or will likely have finished my last “ordinary” chemotherapy session. The past few days I…
Cancer Diaries: Cancer basics you (and your relatives on WhatsApp) should know
FEBRUARY 5 — I tell people I feel blessed to not be diagnosed with cancer in the US. Right now pauses on federal funding, including grants, in the US has…
Cancer Diaries: Don’t fear public healthcare, fight for it instead
JANUARY 29 — Something that people expressed to me about switching to public healthcare, that I experienced myself, was fear. What were people afraid of? They were afraid of being…
Cancer Diaries: Goodbye hair, hello my new normal
JAN 22 — It finally happened; my hair started falling like autumn leaves, strands dropping wherever I went, leaving a trail of black and grey.As poetic as I make it…
Cancer Diaries: On chemo and unravelling the threads of my life
JANUARY 8 — Because my life will never not be an entertaining sitcom for the angels, my first chemotherapy session was both eventful and uneventful. Eventful as in I caused…
Cancer Diaries: On starting chemo and the obsession with other people’s prayers
JANUARY 1 — I am writing this column one-handed due to an IV port, from a hospital bed as I begin my first chemotherapy treatment. It’s been a whirlwind of…
Cancer Diaries: Switching hospitals, looking for solutions
DECEMBER 18 — In the week since my last column, I have made a switch to the public healthcare system and found myself hopping from not one but two hospitals.…