“As I contemplate my situation, there is a part of me that hopes I am never cured. Perhaps I am not meant to be a ‘normal’ doctor.”
‘I am not your average medical student studying to be a doctor. Beneath MY white coat lives a patient.’
‘Graduating isn’t possible.’ My body was shutting down. But I was going to get my degree one way or another.’: Woman finds ‘strength, faith’ among tumor discovery and multiple chronic diagnoses
“My world completely stopped. I had to quit all my activities. I was separated from everyone, everything that made me who I was. I was grieving my old life, while simultaneously trying to get it back, and somehow, I didn’t realize life was going on without me. And just when I thought there might be light at the end of the tunnel, we got more life changing news. I bet you’ve never heard someone wanting to go to school so badly, but I did. I just wanted to feel normal again.”
