HeyJaredThinking Out Loud: A Cancer Blog
Diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in 2011, and undergoing a stem cell transplant in 2023, this is part mental therapy, part conversation, and part health update to help navigate the mental, physical, and emotional complexity of cancer.
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A Little Defiance and A Little Hope (opens the original)
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For a few years now, I’ve thought of having the words Fuck Cancer prominently tattooed on me for all to see. It would explain how I feel about this disease that has co-habitated in my body for the last 15 years. In the early days of diagnosis and beyond, I would sometimes feel that sentiment intensely when I ran, as if with each step, I was flipping off cancer. But a tattoo would be a way to scream my defiance out loud, so to speak. The thought kind of sat in the back of my mind for a few years,
What a Pain (opens the original)
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I had a scare the other day. Through the perfect storm of symptoms, timing, and anxiety, I was sure my lymphoma was back. To understand, we have to go back four years ago. That’s when everything changed for me and my cancer experience, when my indolent, barely noticeable follicular lymphoma transformed into an aggressive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
Meaningless Numbers (opens the original)
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It’s the fourth of July and I’m honoring it following a tradition my father practiced - reading the Declaration of Independence. It’s a remarkable document but don’t worry, I won’t veer into any political rant. Beside marking the 250th Independence Day, July 4th is a notable date for me as it sits exactly halfway between two anniversaries. June 30th, 2026, marked 15 years of life as a cancer patient. July 7th will mark my one-year anniversary of CAR-T cell treatment.<a class="image-link image2 i
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