My life has been relatively cancer-free for the last nine months. I’ve been waiting for confirmation to write about this latest effort. During this time, my scalp has blossomed like a Chia Pet gone wild, which allows me to be closeted about my cancer identity while at college. It’s amazing how nearly no one at school knows about something that was such a large part of my life. Ironically, this past semester I took a writing course entitled “On Being Ill.” The class made me pick apart my cancer experience, chew on it and spit it out. All the while pretending to have no experience with the subject matter at all. Now, home for the holidays, my chemo-curls are twirling off in all directions. I got the “all-clear” from my oncologist, and have now embarked on my latest project. When I was sick, the Make-A-Wish Foundation offered me a wish. My wish was to help another cancer patient who could not afford treatment. The foundation found Micaela, a teenager living in Argentina, who is almost exactly my age. She has Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, the same diagnosis as my own. The only difference between our illnesses is that she can’t afford treatment. I want to help her. Please follow the link below to read more:
https://secure.wish.org/friends/wishfulthinking.htm
Micaela
Happy Holidays.
Love,
Gabi
I was just looking at your blog yesterday, wondering how things were going. I wish that I had done something similar with my make-a-wish, but I was four...and really wanted to go to disney. haha. I'm glad that things are going well :D
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