At twenty-three years old, Suleika Jaouad (Su-lake-uh Ja-wad) was diagnosed with leukemia and given a thirty-five percent chance of survival.

She lived through many grueling rounds of chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and months confined to a hospital but still found joy in the blog she wrote (which was picked up by the New York Times), the friends she made at the hospital, and those she knew only through letters and emails sent to her.

Jaouad offers us a privileged position–to walk alongside her through the depths of her pain and sadness and her ultimate return to the land of the living.

At twenty-three years old, Suleika Jaouad (Su-lake-uh Ja-wad) was diagnosed with leukemia and given a thirty-five percent chance of survival.

She lived through many grueling rounds of chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and months confined to a hospital but still found joy in the blog she wrote (which was picked up by the New York Times), the friends she made at the hospital, and those she knew only through letters and emails sent to her.

Jaouad offers us a privileged position–to walk alongside her through the depths of her pain and sadness and her ultimate return to the land of the living.

Here are a few links where you can learn more about Suleika Jaouad:

Her website, https://www.suleikajaouad.com/, where she distributes a free newsletter and has a paid membership.

“Life, Interrupted,” Jaouad’s blog in the New York Times and the accompanying video series.

From the main TED stage in April 2019, Jaouad’s talk on What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living.

On NPR’s TED Radio Hour, How Can We Transform Loneliness Into Creative Solitude?

A cover story on CBS Sunday Morning You have to suffer through the commercial first.