Columns

February 26, 2021February 24, 2021

A Farewell Note to My Beloved Readers

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

So, the time has come. Here I am, three years after I sat down for the first time to write my inaugural column for Lymphoma News Today, writing my very ... Read more

February 15, 2021February 11, 2021

A Light-giver Shares a Lesson in Emotional Honesty

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

Have you ever noticed how the people with the most light to give are often those who have endured the most suffering? I realized this the other day when a ... Read more

February 1, 2021January 27, 2021

Embarking on a New Chapter While Cherishing the Value of Community

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

It’s surreal to ponder that our world has been living through a pandemic for a year now. That we’ve endured this strange sense of separation from one another for so ... Read more

December 14, 2020December 9, 2020

Shedding My Sickness While Acknowledging Its Eternal Impact

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

Just before the world changed overnight in March, I wrote a column titled “The Paradox of Healing.” In it, I contemplated my feelings about returning to “normal life” after cancer ... Read more

November 16, 2020November 12, 2020

Sometimes Everything Works Out All Right

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

The other day, I chanced upon a poem called “Sometimes” that stopped me in my tracks and penetrated right through my rib cage and into my heart, as only a ... Read more

September 28, 2020September 24, 2020

Let’s Not Forget the Superheroes

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

Lately, in the midst of all the insanity going on in the world and the ensuing, albeit dispiriting, headlines covering all things COVID-19, there has been a notable lack of ... Read more

September 14, 2020September 10, 2020

Frozen Toes and Sleepless Nights: The Reality of Being a Cancer Survivor

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

For the past week, I have been living in what I can only describe as a state of unrelenting exhaustion. The main culprit: chronic insomnia. The impact on my body ... Read more

August 31, 2020August 27, 2020

Can a Break From Routine Induce Healing?

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

This is a question I found myself pondering the other week as I locked up my little flat and escaped to somewhere sunny and beautiful for a short time. I ... Read more

August 17, 2020August 13, 2020

Reflections on My ‘Re-birthday’ and the Past Year of Recovery

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

By the time this column is published, the one-year anniversary of my lifesaving stem cell transplant will have come and gone. But as I sit here sweating away in the ... Read more

July 27, 2020July 23, 2020

This Year Has Taught Me Gratitude

Columns, Life After Lymphoma: A Young Warrior's Guide to Recovery - a Column by Michelle Raphaella Fredman

This week I’ve felt completely at a loss over what to write about. It happens sometimes. Usually there’s something on my mind that I can bring forth to the page, ... Read more