In my dreams I still have hair.  Phantom curls rest heavy on my shoulders. In my dreams I still toss them off to one side and sweep the...

Too often, cancer stories in the media end with finality - the main character has a clean scan, or is declared in remission, or - the...

"THE SCAN WAS GOOD!" My doctor said it as soon as she walked in the door. "I won't make you wait," she said, after making me wait all...

The port freaks me out. It doesn’t hurt at all, and it made round 7 of treatment SO much easier. It’s not noticeable under my clothes. In...

Presenting my list of (mostly geeky, with varying degrees of effort) bald Halloween costume ideas

If there is one thing I love it is bad movies. The cheesier and lower budget, the better. Last weekend a friend and I hit the jackpot...

Beyond the obvious physical toll cancer takes on my body, my mental health has also taken a beating the past few months (shocker.) My...

Three rounds of chemo and a CT scan later, and I was finally ready for surgery. It's a weird thing to celebrate — getting sliced open and...

Running a hand through my hair is a nervous tic that is surprisingly hard to break for someone who’s bald. There’s almost no hair for my...

"I'm coming out. I want the world to know, She's got a weird-shaped skull." — my hair, probably My hair is everywhere except my head. The...

You know those super annoying people that complain they have "sweet blood" and get more bug bites than other people? I'm one of them....

A few months ago I started doing a silly Instagram series called "Out of Con-TEXT" in which I share some of the ridiculous conversations...

When I first called my therapist to tell her the news of my diagnosis, I could not stop laughing. "Oh it is not funny," I said before...