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I still remember what happened in 2022 after my mother received her myeloma diagnosis. I was sitting by her side in the hospital room.

“Nobody is reading any of those essays you caregivers write,” a healthcare provider once told me. The following week, a stranger emailed me: “Your…

When I recently read that former U.S. President Joe Biden had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and it had spread to his bones, my heart…

I wanted to scream at my mother last Tuesday when she insisted on skipping her medication because she didn’t feel like taking it. While she…

I’ll never forget the day that my mother was diagnosed with myeloma. That was when the word “son” was entirely erased from my identity.