fatigue

30Oct2021

Persistence during a health pandemic and an unexpected blood cancer diagnosis–we are our best advocates when not feeling well!

Introducing blood cancer friend Tamsin Wheatcroft as she shares with us on this video how she learned of her CLL diagnosis. Join the blood cancer supp…

What it is like to live with an MPN: MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASM #ThisIsBloodCancer

MPNs R US

13Sep2021

What it is like to live with an MPN: MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASM #ThisIsBloodCancer

At first when you find out it’s 🔹SHOCKING and 🔹OVERWHELMING.There is 🔹NO CURE as of today. It’s a 🔹CHRONIC slow progre…

Finding myself and becoming friends with my blood despite Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Myelofibrosis (MF) #ThisIsBloodCancer

MPNs R US

12Sep2021

Finding myself and becoming friends with my blood despite Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Myelofibrosis (MF) #ThisIsBloodCancer

Here is Debra Kay Patella’s story. She started out with Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and recently morphed into Myelofibrosis (MF) both…

Adrian Warnock

5Aug2021

Strength in Weakness

Anyone who has a chronic illness is likely to have heard the words “keep strong!” They are normally well meaning words. And in one sense there is noth…

Take a Walk – Exercise may help fatigue in some of us

Lynn Bailey

10Jul2021

Take a Walk – Exercise may help fatigue in some of us

Our doctors tell us to get exercise. Our blood cancer friends tell us we need to do some walking. Well today, I went to our nearby state park where we…

Living my life at 3am: an illustration of fatigue

Adrian Warnock

10Jun2021

Living my life at 3am: an illustration of fatigue

Does this resonate with you? For many of us with blood cancer fatigue is so far from being "just tired" it is hard to explain its debilitating crushin…

FCR Diary – Home at last and Cycle Three

Adrian Warnock

26Oct2020

FCR Diary – Home at last and Cycle Three

This is a continuation of my FCR diary from two years ago. If you haven't read the previous articles here they are: The Day Leukaemia Changed My Lif…

FCR Treatment Diary – an unexpected hospital admission

Adrian Warnock

22Oct2020

FCR Treatment Diary – an unexpected hospital admission

This is a continuation of a warts and all diary of my FCR treatment which happened two years ago and is now being published on the open web for the fi…

Diagnosing and Understanding Cancer related fatigue

Adrian Warnock

3Oct2020

Diagnosing and Understanding Cancer related fatigue

A while back I found a great article on fatigue aimed at doctors but understandable to I would expect most of us who read this site. It’s all about ca…

Why “remission” can feel like a crushing blow

Adrian Warnock

8Sep2020

Why “remission” can feel like a crushing blow

I found finishing chemo and being told I was in remission the most difficult time emotionally. It was worse than the initial diagnosis time. Worse than actually going through chemo. Worse than being in hospital with life threatening infections.

Breathing Part One: What are we doing wrong?

Planet Health

1Aug2020

Breathing Part One: What are we doing wrong?

Welcome to a new Planet health series exploring how learning to breathe in a different way might improve your energy levels. Join Eric as he introduce…

Dealing with the threefold tyranny of a damaged immune system (Infections, Inflammation, Fatigue)

Adrian Warnock

11Jul2020

Dealing with the threefold tyranny of a damaged immune system (Infections, Inflammation, Fatigue)

What can we do when cancer and chemo have led to a trail of destruction in our immune systems?

Consider The Lilies12:27

24Jun2020

Ashwagandha Use in the Fatigue Fog?

I am not a science kinda gal. I like many things about science, but not necessarily digging deep into the labyrinth of technical jargon that goes alon…

Adrian Warnock

8Jun2020

Fatigue – the crushing of energy

Fatigue. It’s a normal sounding word. And when we use it to describe the profound limitations sometimes caused by blood cancer people say things like …

Adrian Warnock

29May2020

How the immune system works

Blood cancer is a disease of the immune system. The very cells in the body that are meant to protect us from invaders have turned against us. And the …

A blood cancer tsunami hit me three years ago today

Adrian Warnock

20May2020

A blood cancer tsunami hit me three years ago today

I wake this morning feeling very sober. But also very glad to be alive. Mixed motions for sure. You could even say that I was "sorrowful yet always re…