{"id":272,"date":"2019-06-01T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T00:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmlynchwriter.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2023-10-15T21:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T21:47:25","slug":"life-after-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmlynchwriter.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/01\/life-after-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Star personal essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1664px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><em><strong>After cancer the fear never leaves you, but she\u2019s fighting back<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-290 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02-300x200.jpg?resize=309%2C206\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=200%2C133&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?w=3200&amp;ssl=1 3200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rpjRide02.jpg?fit=3600%2C2400&amp;ssl=1 3600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/>In 1988, I celebrated my thirty-first birthday in a hospital bed, convinced it would be my last.<\/p>\n<p>Days earlier, I\u2019d woken from a coma after two grand mal seizures\u2014caused by three months of chemotherapy for the rare leukemia that had overtaken my body.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors used the word \u201cgrim.\u201d My father bought me a cemetery plot.<\/p>\n<p>One month later in May, I received an experimental bone marrow transplant at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto\u2014a long shot with less than an eight per cent chance of success. On that day, my sister Mary\u2019s liquid bone marrow hung from an IV pole, its contents dripping from a bag into a central vein in my chest through a Hickman line. I watched it and felt something I hadn\u2019t felt in months&#8230; Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, I was in remission, but my face\u2014and my body\u2014turned purple. It was Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD), my doctor said, a post-transplant complication where Mary\u2019s donated marrow attacked my organs. That\u2019s how I learned my skin was the largest organ in my body. The GvHD also appeared in my liver. Later it would show up in my mouth and the small airways in my lungs. If not controlled, GvHD could be life threatening. My doctor monitored it regularly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/2019\/05\/31\/after-cancer-the-fear-never-leaves-you-but-shes-fighting-back.html\">Read the entire essay published in the weekend edition of the Life section of the Toronto Star (June 1, 2019)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Rene Johnson\/<em>Toronto Star<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmlynchwriter.com\/index.php\/blog\/\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Back to Complete List of Blog Posts:<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,10,5,23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-publication","category-school","category-survivor","category-writer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MM Lynch Writer &#8211; 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