It was all a dream, a social media dream. When I went public with my Hodgkin’s Lymphoma story, it was early 2016. I don’t think I even knew how to fully use Instagram. Essentially I’ve seen it all. The good, the bad, the ugly. I think social media is great because it helped me get through one of the most difficult periods of my life and connected me with some of the best friends I’ve met. They all had cancer too, duh. But like anything else, social media does have its faults. There will always be critics. See, that’s the thing about the internet. Anyone can hide behind a computer and say whate ..read more

Sit back and let me tell you a little secret about life. I don’t know what I’m doing. No one else knows what they’re doing either. Trust me, no one. You’re probably freaking out that you lost so much time out of your life going through treatment. You don’t know what to do next. You feel like you should be in a different chapter of your life. I did the same thing during and after Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. FREEZE! Stop right there. This probably has a lot to do with social media. Social media allows you to portray your life however which way that you would like. You may think that everyone is ou ..read more

Dating after cancer, the subject that everyone wants to know about, but no one wants to actually discuss. Everyone is different. No one handles any aspect of treatment, or life after treatment the same. I went SO public with my journey, that if someone asks for my name, they immediately google me and ALL of this crazy shit pops up, even in different languages. GIRL DIAGNOSED WITH STAGE FOUR CANCER! ETC ETC. I sometimes google my name and am like what the actual f#$&? My entire life is on the internet. I have days where I’m like wow, why did I do that? Sometimes I want to be a normal girl w ..read more

The Truth about Remission For those that haven’t had cancer or have not been touched by it in some way or another, they sometimes believe that once you’re in remission, your journey is over. Yes, maybe your treatment is over, but the journey isn’t completely over, it’s just separated into another chapter “Life after cancer”, I like to call it. It’s never truly over. It’s something that all of us will have to deal with in one way or another. Let’s be real, chemo and radiation save our lives, but they also cause a hell of a lot of side effects, including secondary cancers. And unfortunately peop ..read more

30 things I’ve learned 1. Life is freaking short! If you want to do something, do it. Always live like it’s your last day on earth, because you never know when that day is. For us cancer survivors, we get that. We don’t know what tomorrow will bring, and you don’t either. Live while you can. Respect your health and that you’re alive, unfortunately not everyone does. 2. Family is everything. Spend as much time with them as possible. And your mom ALWAYS knows best. If I listened to my mom about all of the inadequate boyfriends and friends I have had in the past, I would have avoided a lot of dis ..read more

Post Chemo Hair Growth Tips! Hi! It’s me, reporting live 7 months post Hodgkin’s Lymphoma chemo. I’m actually going to say it’s 6 months post chemo, because I got blasted with chemo twice (thx doc) so I lost my hair TWICE! The first time it grew back straight, the second time..Afro. It didn’t actually start growing until 6 weeks post chemo and my last chemo was August 3rd. My hair has grown an insane amount within these 6-7 months. I didn’t start taking Biotin until a few weeks ago, because my doctor scared me and doesn’t want me taking any vitamins. So, I haven’t taken any. I honestly use SO ..read more

To all of my cancer fighters, I was you this time last year. I’m writing to let you know that this time last year, I was in your shoes. I was you. I completely get what you’re going through right now, because I was there. Don’t worry, what you’re feeling is normal. This is all normal. Around this exact time last year, was about two weeks after my first chemo. This exact night is the first time I ran my hands through my hair and it was falling out in clumps. My hair is what I thought defined me for those 28 years of my life. I had long hair and long extensions. When your hair falls out, it’s pr ..read more

A Letter to all of the doctors that misdiagnosed me: It’s officially been one year since I went into respiratory failure. One year since I was diagnosed with Stage 4B Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. One year since not only my life changed, but the lives of all of my friends and family changed. One year since I woke up in the ICU, after being transferred to Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, to Dr. Izidore Lossos, who essentially saved my life. One year since I spent the majority of my 2016 undergoing salvage chemotherapy and radiation. One year since cancer was in every organ in my body, and I had abs ..read more

Be kind to everyone,  for everyone is fighting their own battle. The world is full of kind people, if you can’t find one, then become one. People are judged every single day, whether we realize it or not. And I think it’s getting to the point where it’s actually becoming heartbreaking. So how do we deal with this? Well, here is what I’ve learned over the past year in my battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. In a world full of unkind people, you must always try to be kind. you must always try to help people understand, and retaliate with love instead of hate. I’ve always been very private, but b ..read more

HOW TO HANDLE SCANXIETY LIKE A REAL MVP There are a million forms of fear in life. We all fear things daily, whether we want to admit it or not. People fear that they will lose their jobs, people fear that they will never find love or get married, people fear that they will never be enough. For us cancer patients, the fear of scans or “scanxiety” is real. After you’ve conquered something like cancer, we don’t fear the world ending, because like this one quote says..the world has ended for us many times, but we still woke up the next morning. But on the downside, any lump you feel, any strange ..read more