These blogs document the real moments behind Surviving Myself.
Unedited.Uncomfortable. Lived.
Medical Dismissal & Self Advocacy
Understanding the cost of symtom dismissal on your cancer journey and the importance of self advocacy. This piece shares the begining struggles for Josh during his early days fighting Long COVID and cancer symptoms without a diagnosis. It shows the reader the importance of self advocacy and the dangers to your fight when symptoms are dismissed.
Phone A Friend: Managing Cancer Information
Learning how to manage cancer information without letting statistics define my future. This piece reflects on how survival rates became promises I believed I had to live up to—and how falling outside the curve forced me to reframe data as tools, not destiny.
When Cancer Changed My Future
Cancer changes things in ways I didn’t even think possible. Learning that to live, I’d have to destroy a part of my body, potentially altering my future forever, was not an easy pill to swallow and something I’m still working through today.
Written In Ink
Preparing for end-of-life care and establishing medical boundaries was not something I had ever thought I’d need to consider. Navigating cancer, treatment, and the risks meant having to face death and all it brought with it.
Cancer & Diagnosis
Being diagnosed with cancer didn’t feel how I expected. This is what it was actually like to hear the words and step into a life that would forever change me.
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