ItWasTheUnicorns

As a current cancer fighter, this is really cool to read about! I am also from Vancouver :) Were you treated at BCCH, or in London? I know what you mean about always associating cancer with death. I was diagnosed with a large medulloblastoma when i was 13. It's a tumor of the brainstem, so I wasn't given a very good prognosis, but with chemo, radiation, and surgery, i've managed to make it to 14! I am really hoping to someday be told I am in remission. I am glad you have been able to go back to school, I really miss school. How did your siblings react? My little sister didn't like it when I lost my hair, and she doesn't like visiting me in the hospital, because she's kind of afraid of doctors in general.

That's honestly the lamest part about this (other than all the medical crap). I NEVER get to see my friends anymore! One time, when I was in between treatments and doing ok, I went to visit my school, but it was really weird. Most of my friends were ok, just let me sit with them and hang out, but the teachers acted really weird, and one of them cried, which was REALLY WEIRD, because i had only had her for like a month before I had to leave!

Where do you go to school? Maybe we go to the same school!

One time I told her the tree was rotten because it had cancer. You should have seen her face, it was hilarious. She came every day that week, I think i crossed a line. They probably thought i was finally crazy.

Wow, this is crazy!!! I love Kristina! I think they call her a life specialist or something, but she's great. She always gets me the right books, and she brought me a mini keyboard so I could play the piano still, but i'm really bad at it now, because my fingers go numb a lot. My psychologist is Jocelyn. She always makes me draw pictures of houses and trees and crap. I'm not really sure what it's telling her, but apparently something important.