With a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, I've always had a great interest in religion, but I've never practiced one myself.… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
After my diagnosis at age 22 with leukemia, the second piece of news I learned was that I would likely be infertile… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Today, at age 24, when my peers are dating, marrying and having children of their own, my cancer treatments are causing internal… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Before my diagnosis with leukemia, two years ago at the age of 22, I'd always excelled at making resolutions. But I was… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
One of the hardest parts about developing leukemia at age 22 was how restrictive it was: My treatments left me highly susceptible… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
At the age of 22, I began to consider my own mortality. It had never occurred to me that, with all of… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
You know, illness is not something that ever crossed my mind until I got diagnosed with leukemia two years ago at the… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 22, I learned just how much cancer affects families when it affects individuals. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Just a few years ago, at the age of 22, I learned I had an aggressive form of leukemia. I needed intensive… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The bone marrow transplant procedure itself can be dangerous, but it is swift, which makes it feel strangely anti-climactic. — 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 down time… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
