I’ve been struggling to get back in shape after chemo.
Since being diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma (Stage IV) in late 2011, my life changed. Beyond the psychological and emotional consequences of how cancer affected me, my family, and my relationships, it is undeniable and abundantly clear that cancer took its toll on me from a physical perspective.
Last year, I decided to regain control of my body, my life habits, and my health. I started tracking everything I could about my activities, my exercise routine, the food I ate, and the time I spent working with my iPad instead of walking, sleeping, or enjoying time with my family. Since then, I’ve made a decision to not let cancer and its consequences define me any longer.
I want to be healthier, I want to eat better, and I want to take the second chance I was given and make the most of it. What started as an experiment has become a new daily commitment to improve my lifestyle and focus.
Between all the pointless bickering, we sometimes forget how much technology can mean to people when facing hardship like this.
Touching story. That said, it would be possible with an Android phone as well, so the “MacStories” heading is a tad tasteless.
Good thing it helped him though.
Well, it would have been possible without a phone at all; just a matter of dedication.
Of course, the point of the story was that the phone made it easier, and this person’s particular experience was with an iPhone. It’s probably true that a non-iPhone user wouldn’t have said, “my Galaxy” or, “my Lumia”, but in context, I don’t know that it’s worth nitpicking over the silliness of how invested people are in owning Apple products.
Let’s say that “Life after cancer: how the smartphone helped me” would have been a more proper concept.