A real stage IV cancer journey told through modern medicine, lived experience, and the ancient stories that still give shape to the world around us.
Cancer can make even finding information exhausting. Choose the path that feels most useful today.
A simple starting point for the first days and weeks after cancer changes everything.
Begin here →
Appointments, questions, infusion days, planning ahead, and practical ways to feel more prepared.
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Support for side effects, treatment cycles, daily life, fear, fatigue, pain, and recovery.
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I’m writing my cancer journey as a modern myth, using Greek gods and monsters to tell the emotional story behind the medicine.
Discover the Book →Much of living with cancer happens outside the treatment room: managing symptoms, adapting routines, protecting your mental health, and finding ways to keep everyday life moving.
Understand how cancer and treatment can affect the body, along with common approaches for managing symptoms and staying comfortable.
Explore symptoms →
Understand what life around cancer treatment can involve, from appointments and procedures to treatment cycles, recovery, and changing plans.
Explore treatment life →
Explore practical ways to handle routines, work, responsibilities, energy, transportation, organization, and the adjustments cancer can require.
Manage daily life →
Find information about fear, stress, uncertainty, grief, hope, identity, and the emotional challenges that can come with cancer.
Find emotional support →
Guidance for family, friends, and caregivers on how to offer practical, emotional, and everyday support.
Support someone you love →Cancer brings a flood of new information, decisions, and questions. This section combines clear explanations with practical guidance on testing, treatment, nutrition, supplements, and supportive approaches to help you better understand the road ahead.
My journey will not look exactly like yours, but some of the questions, setbacks, decisions, and lessons may feel familiar. These pages follow my path through treatment, recovery, uncertainty, progress, and whatever comes next.
Follow My JourneyTreatment days could be long, noisy, and I usually did not feel very good walking in. Between televisions, conversations, and machines beeping, my noise-canceling headphones became one of my treatment-day essentials. I would put them on, start my playlist, and let the rest of the room fade away.
Title Holder became my theme song against the cancer; my battle anthem.
Fight like a title holder.
Stand like a champion.
Live like a warrior,
and never let 'em break you down.
(woohoo)
If you are building your own treatment-day playlist, I recommend giving this one a listen.
When I beat this, those lyrics are going down my arm — starting at my shoulder, with WOO-HOO on my knuckles.
Life Beyond Treatment
Cancer can take up an enormous amount of attention. Life Beyond Treatment is about finding things that give your mind somewhere else to go—hobbies, nature, creativity, movement, comfort, and whatever helps you reconnect with the rest of life. I’ll share the things I tried and enjoyed, along with ideas you can explore in your own way.
Explore Life Beyond TreatmentCanceromachy is an evolving story that transforms a real stage IV cancer journey into a modern Greek myth. Medicine, lived experience, and ancient mythology move through the same world as gods, monsters, treatment rooms, and the hidden battles taking place inside the body.
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