Then Cancer Struck. Both of Us.

The Crazy Story of a Couple’s Unexpected Double Diagnosis

Photos by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

It’s not a story you’ll believe. If I had pitched it to Hollywood, I would have gotten laughed out of the room for being ridiculous. In December, my fiancé was diagnosed with acute leukemia, at 38. (I wrote about it for Medium here.) We had just gotten engaged. After three years of Covid and finally seeing the…