For years, I knew something wasn’t quite right. I had been living with fibroid pain and pressure for a long time. There were days when my abdomen felt uncomfortable, my stomach looked distended, and I simply didn’t feel like my…
From Scanxiety to Routine: What 13 Years of Survivorship Has Quietly Taught Me About Living Between Appointments
There’s a kind of anxiety that doesn’t always announce itself loudly. It doesn’t always look like panic or fear. Sometimes it looks like scrolling a little longer before bed. Or feeling your stomach tighten when an appointment reminder pops up….
Thyroid Cancer Survivorship and Scanxiety: When a Routine Ultrasound Triggers Survival Mode
There are moments in survivorship that quietly remind you healing is not a finish line, but rather a lifelong relationship with your body, your mind, and your history. Recently, I went for my annual thyroid ultrasound. A test that, for…
The Importance of Advocacy
It’s been a while since I needed to advocate for my own care. A decade ago, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and a lot has changed since then. Thyroid cancer today is treated differently, and patients have more options…
Reflections During Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
September marks the start of many things. The first day of school, the emergence of Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and a 30-day period devoted to thyroid cancer awareness. While almost anyone will tell you that awareness months have no expiration date…
Media Mentions: Cancer & Caregiving
June has proved to be a busy month—and it’s just getting started. There was a trip to Philadelphia right as the month began, then home in time for National Cancer Survivors Day and to launch the Buck Cancer collection with…
Scanxiety 2.0
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about scanxiety. It was, and still is, one of my best-performing posts. I attribute this to the fact that whether or not someone is a cancer survivor, we’ve all experienced a…
Join Me At Digital CancerCon!
I’m so excited to announce that I am presenting an interactive panel on Tuesday, April 26 at 6 pm EST entitled, The Future of Caregiving: Millennials and the Caregiving Crisis, at Stupid Cancer’s annual virtual conference for the adolescent and…
Here’s Why I Finally Got a Primary Care Physician
We all know that as we get older, it becomes more important to take care of ourselves. And that care extends to finding the right doctors—which can often be a time-consuming and stressful process. So, it should come as no…
What Happens When The Caregiver Needs Care?
These last few weeks have been stressful on both the caregiving and entrepreneurial front. Aside from managing client work, I’ve been dealing with feelings of guilt on the caregiving side of things. If you follow me on Instagram, you may…
Why World Cancer Day is Important to Me as a Survivor
This past weekend marked World Cancer Day, a day to recognize the approximately 32 million survivors globally, send support to those who have lost loved ones to this disease, and a time to think about my own diagnosis ten years…
Have You Checked Your Thyroid?
This month is Thyroid Awareness Month, and I’m excited to partner with Paloma Health to gift one lucky winner an at-home thyroid test kit. I first learned about the online medical clinic that specializes in and treats hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s…
