I have been home from rehab for just over two months and I’m generally doing ‘well’ and am happy with the slow but steady progress I am making. I recently had several neurological tests done to determine the cause and severity of the ‘neuropathy’ that I was experiencing in my…
The power of movement and body connectedness in healing
January 24th, 2018, The day I was told I had cancer, I was three weeks away from getting on a plane to go to Nicaragua and complete my yoga teacher training. I needed a physical to ensure I could safely…
What’s Your Ripple?
I see a lot of discussion on Covid lately, and I just want to take a moment to allow you to see a different perspective of it. A lot of the focus is on covid itself, and how serious the…
Day +467
I’ve talked a lot about the light at the end of the tunnel; how far away it seems sometimes. Like a finish line just out of reach, or a constantly moving target, the end never seems to truly be in…
FYI Music News Digest: Cadence Grace receives stem cell transplant; Wins CMAO Award.
Cadence Grace, a solo artist and singer with country trio Runaway Angel based out of Toronto, was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) on February 12, 2018, and received a bone marrow transplant 64 days ago. The good news is that…
THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE 7TH ANNUAL CMAONTARIO AWARDS
The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAOntario) tonight celebrated the talent and achievements of Ontario’s country music industry across 19 categories at the 7th Annual CMAOntario Awards in Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Cadence Grace wins the Holly and Steve…
Show Review – Country Kicks Cancer’s Ass in Toronto, ON
Sunday Night at The Rock ‘n’ Horse Saloon, fellow musicians, friends, family, staff, and tech crew, came together to give up a few hours our their Sunday, to show support to Cadence Grace of the Country trio, Runaway Angel. The Rock ‘n’ Horse…
Retreats & Recovery
The last few days have been absolutely insane- so much so I haven’t really had time to sit down and reflect on them yet. Today I have a bit of downtime and I wanted to talk about how incredible my…
Country Music KICKED CANCERS ASS!
Yesterday was amazing, and truly insane. After a wonderful weekend retreat, to walk into something like that was overwhelming. I cried in the corner for the first ten minutes because I was so filled with gratitude. I can never thank…
How yoga saved my life
Today was just so amazing it’s going to be hard to put in to words. I woke up and went to yoga with the girls at the Pink Pearl retreat. It was the first time I had practiced yoga since…
How you can be a HERO
Did you know, that in one single day you can save someone’s life, while watching netflix? Neither did I until I was diagnosed with Leukemia, and told that without a bone marrow transplant, I wouldn’t survive. When I was first…
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Day +592
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog, but a lot of stuff has happened and I’ve truly been in the hardest, darkest stretch of recovery. I just couldn’t do it. This is a long one, but it’s been a long three months and my hands wouldn’t agree with me…
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Day +498- One in a million
In my last blog I talked a lot about this recurrent Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection that I’ve been having endless problems with. At the end of July I was hospitalized to manage the complications that the drug Foscarnet, which we were using to treat the CMV had been causing. It’s very…
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Day +467
I’ve talked a lot about the light at the end of the tunnel; how far away it seems sometimes. Like a finish line just out of reach, or a constantly moving target, the end never seems to truly be in sight. This time it feels the light turned out to…
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Canadian Country Singer Cadence Grace Back In Hospital
Canadian country singer Cadence Grace, who has waged a battle with an aggressive blood cancer, is back in hospital. “Guess who needs both her hips replaced? This lucky gal right here,” the 35-year-old revealed in a Facebook post. “The femoral head on the left became necrotic and enough of the bone died…
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Day +420
It’s been almost six months since I wrote an update last and I figured it was finally time. Like many months before this, I’ve let week after week go by waiting for some kind of huge breakthrough to happen. To get close enough to the edge of this land of limbo…
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Second Life
A short story about life from the perspective of a transplant patient. Written by Cadence Grace for CBC short story competition in 2020. The last few days of my first life weren’t really so bad. I called it the honeymoon. My heart was still filled with hope and determination as…
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Day 243
Man a lot can happen in a year. This time last year I was preparing for a transplant. Filling out forms, trying to find a donor and wondering if I would make it to another Christmas. Now here I am, cancer free, feeling extraordinarily lucky and grateful to be on…
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Day 183- Halfway Point
It’s officially been six months since I had my Bone marrow transplant and time feels like it has somehow simultaneously flown by at warp speed, and stretched on endlessly. This is the halfway point to my next post-transplant milestone, which is to make it to the one year mark. After…
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Day +145
I sit down in the cheap wire chair which is about as uncomfortable as I currently feel inside. I wish I was anywhere other than here right now; that I could have just navigated all these complications on my own. I wish everything just felt easier. Most especially I wish…