Unless someone like you, cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

 Meg was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on December 23rd, 2015. She was 13 old at the time and was on vacation on the Oregon Coast. After spending the first month of treatment at Portland's Children's Hospital, she was allowed to come home to Virginia on January 21st only to go back into the hospital with a severe blood clot in her arm. She continued to face complication after complication during her chemotherapy treatment. From a fungal meningitis infection in her brain, to pancreatitis, to steroid-induced diabetes, appendicitis, and even a gallbladder attack. If a weird side-effect of treatment was possible, Meg seemed to get it. Meg completed treatment on May 16th, 2018, and celebrated with a No More Chemo party!

In the last two years Meg has been fighting chronic illness including conditions like dysautonomia, fibromyalgia, thoracic outlet syndrome, and gastroperesis. 

Meg is now 5 YEARS OFF CHEMO as of May 2023, and is considered cured. But the long lasting effects the treatment had on Meg's body and mind are very present...it is never truly over.. and this is something Meg has advocated for over the last few years. Meg also continues to search for treatments to help her chronic illness.