Help Khrystyna Fight Cancer

23/08/2024

This month is proving to be challenging in trying to keep pace but hopefully slow and steady wins the race. 24.49 km left to complete the August challenge in 8 days.

13/08/2024

New blog post regarding workouts:

On July 13th, 2023, I took a significant step in my life by joining the local YMCA, marking the beginning of my gym journey after a cancer diagnosis. At the time, I was motivated and inspired to get well for the sake of my toddler, and myself being a 34 year old at the time. But, I had no idea how d...

30/05/2024

I recommend this book to anyone facing life threatening or even terminal medical diagnosis: 

When it comes to books that transform our understanding of health and healing, few compare to Dr Bernie S. Siegel's "Love, Medicine & Miracles." This groundbreaking work, first published in 1986, explores the profound connection between emotional well-being and physical health. Siegel, a paediatric....

16/05/2024

I am so lucky and blessed to have gotten the best news today from my panel of 36 world-wide chordoma experts through the National Health Institute in the US which confirmed that I am cancer free after reviewing my entire case both before surgery and after surgery. My last MRI was on April 3, 2024 and that is more than one year after surgery that there has been no progression of disease.

I got a second chance in life. I hope to make it count!

02/05/2024

Presentation and prize draw. Please register here: https://www.khrystynanaydan.com/events/support-my-success-journey/form

30/04/2024

What is on my mind? Healthcare reform. What is in my heart? Compassionate and competent care:

One of the most pivotal lessons of my life to date has been that you are your own best advocate. If you don't care enough to fight for what you need, nobody else will. Advocating for your health can take various forms: persistently visiting doctors to communicate your concerns, accurately conveying....

22/04/2024

As any of today’s doctor-authors would acknowledge, they are not the only experts in the stories we live and tell. There is a new type of medical memoir in which patients, too, examine the medical facts as well as the science while contextualizing it with lived experience, and expressing it with a fresh creative vision.

16/04/2024

10/04/2024

Letter to one of the anti-hero’s of my memoir:

Dear Doctor,We are just two months short of two years since my surgery with you. That day, June 20th, 2022, was the day when my life would change forever. Not a single day has passed in these two years where I haven't grappled with what transpired and why it unfolded as it did. Remember the first ap...

05/03/2024

So many things to say yet so few words to express it, please see my new blog:

In life, we all face challenges and obstacles that can sometimes feel overwhelming. It's during these times of adversity that we often grow the most as human beings. What did I learn from going through cancer and surviving six brain and spine surgeries in less than one year? every day is a blessing....