Like a lot of other cancer patients lying in hospital beds or in chemotherapy suites, I have spent a fair amount of… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
To set a 100-day plan was to will myself into the future, no matter how uncertain it seemed. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Every time I see a doctor, get a CT scan, receive chemotherapy or pick up a prescription, insurance covers only part of… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to be able to say I was a cancer patient. Then, for a long time, I… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
During the first year of my cancer treatment, adopting a dog was out of the question. I spent more time in the… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Cancer didn't have to be permanent; in my case, I'm lucky that my cancer is curable, but infertility was. And it was… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
The first time I fantasized about early retirement, I was 22 years old. It was a rainy spring morning in Paris, and… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Even the word 'cancer' is ugly, scary, burdensome - a roadblock for a conversation before it even starts. Who wants to go… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
There are days when I even long for the paralegal job that once upon a time made me so miserable. It wasn't… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself. After I… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
It felt like 10 years, but I was actually in treatment for three-and-a-half years. I finally finished in April. Two years ago, I had… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
There are days when I even long for the paralegal job that once upon a time made me so miserable. It wasn't the perfect… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
When I finally returned home after my five-week hospitalization, I could feel the stares of strangers on my bald head and thinning eyebrows. Everywhere… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
The bone marrow transplant procedure itself can be dangerous, but it is swift, which makes it feel strangely anti-climactic. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
I'll never go so far to call cancer a gift. It's a really terrible disease. It's taken the lives of so many of my… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
I think often when we talk about things like cancer, the kind of final act at the end of the story comes with a… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
Before my diagnosis with leukemia, two years ago at the age of 22, I'd always excelled at making resolutions. But I was never as… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
Like a lot of other young people, I never thought about health insurance until I got sick. I was 22, and my adult life… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
And there came a point in my treatment where I couldn't see that end in sight. And that was the most challenging, I think,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
But no conversation between doctor and patient can magically turn an uninsured patient into an insured one. Doctors are just as helpless as patients… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult world, either.… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
I get along well with my medical team and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. But the idea of discussing my… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
For the better half of my early 20s, I was Bubble Girl. When I found out I had leukemia at 22 my world suddenly… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share
