When I finally returned home after my five-week hospitalization, I could feel the stares of strangers on my bald head and thinning… — 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… — 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
When you are talking to a dog about cancer, there are no judgments or taboos. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
A growing body of evidence suggests that cancer survivors continue to struggle with medical, financial, professional and psychosocial issues long after the… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Cancer isn't something that makes you want to share, it's something that makes you want to hide. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Sex can be a squeamish subject even when cancer isn't part of the picture, so the combination of sex and cancer together… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Writing about cancer is always a challenge for me because it hits so close to home. — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Cancer has made me mentally and spiritually stronger. But as my life starts to go back to normal, I find that some… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Being in your twenties and trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do in life - with… — 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
There's no denying that cancer is a gloomy subject. We repeat positive phrases to ourselves as a sort of mantra. And while… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Getting diagnosed with cancer at 22 really magnified the in-betweenness that I felt. All of my friends were starting careers and going… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
It is hard not to speak in cliches about cancer. It can be even harder not to feel as if I have… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I've struggled with the awkwardness of cancer ever since my leukemia was diagnosed last May. When I told people my news, some… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
And I had this sense, even though I couldn't quite wrap my head around what it meant to have a cancer diagnosis… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Cancer had given me a reverse celebrity status: all the attention for something you didn't want to be known for. I had… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Where cancer is concerned, it's safe to say there's no such thing as good timing. — 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
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
