Comforting words Quote by Suleika Jaouad

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

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

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

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

The bone marrow transplant procedure itself can be dangerous, but it is swift, which makes it feel strangely anti-climactic.

— Suleika Jaouad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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