<p>Mel was a full-time night manager who dismissed her fatigue as a reality of the everyday hustle. Additional symptoms eventually led her to accurately self-diagnosing her Lymphoma. She walks us through her medical and mental health experience with her cancer, and shares what she learned about the support she needed and the kind she didn’t.</p>

Metastatic Breast Cancer IRL

Being in your 20s or 30s and having cancer means sometimes you Google your symptoms and end up being right about the self diagnosis. It means your career might be going on pause, it means you may need to speak to your partner about kids a lot sooner than you thought. It means you will likely need to develop a great sense of humour. It means you may need to reevaluate your friendships. It means a lot of things, and not all of them are discussed, understood, nor treatable in a doctor's office. This is a podcast about all of those things, in conversation with people who have gone through them, or love someone who has.