I am a bit of a hypochondriac, so I’ve diagnosed myself with cancer on more than one occasion. But I never believed it would actually happen – much less with acute myeloid leukemia at age 35.

When I started getting headaches and feeling dizzy and extremely tired in December 2018, I initially chalked it up to motherhood. At the time, I was a stay-at-home mom to an almost-3-year-old daughter and a 7-month-old son. And that’s tiring...