Introductory Post

My intention was to start this blog earlier.  I had no warning that the pain and agony I would be subjected to during the spring of 2012 would prevent me from completing any mundane task—even simple things, like using the restroom and changing my clothes.  I’ve reached a brief hiatus from my chemotherapy treatments, and so finally have the energy to record some of my thoughts since February 27^th, 2012. A blog in the New York Times written by a girl my age diagnosed with leukemia caught my attention and encouraged me to write as well.  I thought it a good mental exercise and use of the ample time I now have and will have in the next few months while I am still receiving treatments.

So as a note to any readers:  the first several blog posts are going to be written in the past tense about events that occurred in the past few months, beginning with 3 months ago.  I will then record posts in the present tense about what is currently happening.  I only hope that someone, another young adult perhaps who has also been struck ill with cancer, reads this blog and becomes inspired by my story.  A person who also learns to accept cancer as an episode in life, if an unfortunate one, and who will become a better person because of it.