Columns

I sit at the kitchen table late at night with a notebook open in front of me. My mum is asleep in the next room.

“But you look great!” Have you ever heard some variation of that? I have. I confess, I’ve even said it. I think it’s a natural…

I wake up before the sun and start building the day. First the tea. Then the medication list. Then the careful arrangement of pillows…

I sit in the doctor’s office translating between two languages. The oncologist speaks in medical terms — “progression-free survival,” “bispecific antibody therapy,” “osteolytic lesions,” “minimal…

There are many treatments now available for multiple myeloma. Quadruplet therapy, bispecific therapy, CAR T-cell therapy, and cereblon E3 ligase modulators (CELMoDs)…

I hand my mum her morning tea and notice the way she adjusts her grip on the cup without saying anything. In that small movement,…

One of my very first columns asked, “Where’s my secret decoder ring?” That was because it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the many names…

I catch myself smiling at a funny video on my phone while waiting in line at the pharmacy. Almost immediately, I feel a pang of…

Remember my great plans to go walking regularly to combat chemo fog? “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men / Gang aft agley,” wrote…

I stand at the kitchen counter chopping vegetables for soup and hear my mum sigh from the living room. One might wonder how I can…