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I was 17 when I woke up one day with pain in my wrist and elbow. Writing suddenly became difficult, and all of a sudden, I could no longer control my fingers anymore when playing the piano. I went to...
My name is Gabriel. I am 20 years old and throughout my life, I have had cancer three times. I had my first encounter with cancer in 2009. I was only five years old then. It started with just...
I was three years old when I lost a kidney. From a young age, I had been having regular fevers. My mother kept bringing me to the general practitioner, but there was no other sign from my body that...
As a junior doctor in her fourth month on the job, death is no stranger to me. I’ve called families at 3am to let them know that their loved one’s blood pressure is downtrending, that this is a...
When I received my diagnosis in 2017, I was still relatively normal. I could still move about like an ordinary person, I just did my daily activities more slowly. For instance, I took longer to walk...
My heart is pounding… My hands are shaking… I can’t breathe… The whole world is spinning… I’m gonna faint… Am I gonna die? These were the thoughts that were running through my mind when...
I waited with bated breath for mum’s message in the hospital hallway. My phone pinged. I saw image after image of a ugly red, fungating mass in a colon. Immediately, I shrunk into my hospital...
I was 14 when I was diagnosed with leukaemia. My parents sold our flat in our home country to finance my treatment in Singapore. A year later, after five cycles of chemotherapy, the cancer was in...
In July 2020, I lost my dad to Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). He was 59 years old and I was 21. In October 2018, my dad visited our family doctor after a fever he developed had persisted for over a...