Birthday holds a special meaning for us cancer survivors. It is not just a celebration of our age, it is also a celebration of love, life, and laughter despite cancer tried to crush us down. Three years from today, I was diagnosed with rare cancer and it was the month Continue Reading
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Skin Care During Radiation Therapy
Cancer does not only have an effect on our emotional and mental aspect, but it also does affect our physical aspect. Radiation therapy is one of the treatments a doctor will recommend to a patient before/after surgical tumor removal. The procedure of radiation therapy is to use high doses of Continue Reading
How Rare is Leiomyosarcoma?
Googling the type of cancer you may have at the moment, you will easily find the information across different cancer websites such as Cancer.Net, National Cancer Institution, or WebMD. However, not in the case of Leiomyosarcoma. In, How Did I Get My Cancer, you can read how I found out Continue Reading
How Did I Get My Cancer?
The sad truth is, scientists don’t know exactly what causes most soft tissue sarcomas. They still don’t know why most soft tissue sarcomas develop in people who have no apparent risk factors. As a leiomyosarcoma survivor, I am going to bring back my own experience from the first day my cancer Continue Reading
I Find Meaning In Life After Healing From All Traumatic Experiences
There is more to life than being happy. You may say that I am one of the most unfortunate persons in the world that had experienced different life’s prejudice one after another. Well, you are right, I am one of them and also one of them that make these traumatic Continue Reading
Pasasalamat Sa Pagpapatunay Ng “Universal Health Coverage” Bill
Bilang isa sa mga Pilipinong nakaligtas sa panganib ng cancer ako po ay nasisiyahan sa karapatang mauna ang Universal Health Coverage bill sa ating bansa. Sa ngayun, wala man ako sa lupa kung saan ako ay isinilang, kahati ng aking puso ay nasa ating bansa kung saan ang mga malalapit kong mga Continue Reading
Be Driven As Fuck Grown-ass Human Being
What you actually see with what I am now is how I became outside the terrifying traumas once I had gone through. All of us have traumatic experiences but not all are willing to heal because they allow their selves to remain the identity which is centered around the trauma Continue Reading
You Might Not Be Here This Time Tomorrow
Put your right priorities, in the right order. If tomorrow never comes and you’ll never longer there, you will just then realize that waiting is nothing but a waste of time. For cancer patients and survivors, now is the time for everyone, not the past nor the future. Living in Continue Reading
I CRIED
You may think I am much tougher after beating cancer. You may think… I never break down. I still cry. I cried. I howled Perhaps you, too, There are times you have to cry, too. I cry. I cry. I cry. I don’t wanna stop crying. Until I will Continue Reading
We Never Truly Know Another’s Pain They Carry
A man shouting for freedom from pain. Photo courtesy by Tony Rojas on Unsplash We all fall down. Whether we are healthy or not, rich or poor, young or old. There are times that we have to fall lower than we have ever been, to stand up taller than we ever Continue Reading