by triciasarmiento | Nov 6, 2016 | Cancer, Chemotherapy, Remission
I am never able to use the changing of seasons as metaphor for the changes in my life. For a simple reason really: More than it being a trite cliché, I’ve never been outside the Philippines in my 29 years of being alive. I have never seen firsthand the leaves...
by triciasarmiento | Nov 6, 2016 | Cancer, Hodgkins Lymphoma
I was diagnosed of Hodgkins Lymphoma in September 2013. Officially in remission, September 2016. FREEDOM! Actually, I ended my radiation therapy in December 2015, so technically, I’ve been relatively free for quite some time now. But I had my post-treatment CT...
by triciasarmiento | Oct 15, 2016 | Cancer, Depression, Hodgkins Lymphoma
[ First published on June 28, 2015 ] Note: I debated for months whether I should reupload this particular post. I don’t honestly like seeing how weak I am, but this is something I keep telling myself I should do for my future self. So, my dear reader, one of my...
by triciasarmiento | Jun 17, 2016 | Cancer, Random Thoughts
I miss my dot com website. I used to run the now-defunct www.writingwonders.com, but changes need to happen I realize I’ve only written five articles on that site, three of which I’m reuploading here Do I regret not writing much about my cancer journey...
by triciasarmiento | Jun 17, 2016 | Cancer, Chemotherapy, Hodgkins Lymphoma
[First published August 18, 2015] You’d think having cancer and going through chemotherapy would mean bleak and dreary days for the duration of the treatment. Sure, I won’t deny the days when despair would poke my slumbering depression like an annoying...
by triciasarmiento | Jun 15, 2016 | Cancer, Chemotherapy, Hodgkins Lymphoma
[First published on July 16, 2014] Often, it is our own stories we find hard to write. Not because we lack the words, but because the words are not enough to describe the intensity of living every second in that situation. But in my attempt to chronicle the hell-paved...
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