I’ve written about how we learned my husband had cancer, but as any caregiver will tell you, diagnosis is only the first part of the story. And this one hasn’t even gotten there yet. We left off with the night we got home from the hospital after Antonio’s surgery to remove a tumor from his …
It all started with rubbery legs. My husband, Antonio, worked as a cook—on his feet all day—and would follow that with a couple hours of hard exercise. He was fit and healthy, a regular runner who didn’t have any vices beyond actually enjoying exercising and preferring fruit over dessert. So when he started feeling a …
When my husband was diagnosed with an Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT) and I became the caregiver for an ATRT cancer patient, I didn’t know what it was, much less 5 things about it. But through his journey as an adult survivor, I’ve come to learn entirely too much about these fuckers—and do not excuse …
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