![]() "But you knew that you didn't want your life to be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to you?" Axelrod asked. I couldn't return to the person I've been pre-diagnosis. No longer sick, but not exactly well, either. "Yeah, there you go! Or workaholism, I don't know," she laughed.Īfter a traumatic three-and-a-half-year ordeal of treatment, including that last-chance bone marrow transplant that carried a life-threatening risk of heart failure and organ damage, Jaouad beat the odds – she was cancer-free. "There's a photograph of me in the transplant unit where I have a vomit bucket under one arm, I have my laptop on my knees, and I'm crying, not because, you know, I'm about to have a bone marrow transplant, but because I've missed a deadline!" Suleika Jaouad. Overnight, Jaouad had what she had yearned for most: purpose. And I remember waking up the next morning and opening my inbox and seeing hundreds of emails from strangers all around the world." ![]() Jaouad said, "My column launched while I was in the bone marrow transplant unit. ![]() Facing Cancer in Your 20s - Life, Interrupted | The New York Times by ![]()
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