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The Little Engine that Wouldn’t: Never Try to Cheer up a Cancer Patient
Rule #1 and #1000: Never try to cheer up a cancer patient. Is it really so hard? Letting others be themselves?
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Mar 12 min read
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Empathy and Defense: Cancer Survivor Superpowers
A survivor of cancer and childhood abuse explains how empathy and defense have become her superpowers, sprung from scarcity.
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Dec 17, 20243 min read
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: A Cancer Survivor's PTSD
A survivor of multiple cancers reflects on her relationship with panic, how PTSD has shaped her life and her character.
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Oct 31, 20242 min read
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Medicine as Transaction: Why I Insist on Being Human
Medicine as transaction. I suppose I am not suited for it. But I ask myself, what are these startling realities calling me to do?
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Oct 9, 20243 min read
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No Time for Terror: Observations from Provincial Cancer Land
A Canadian cancer patient shares observations from the front lines of an overtaxed and underfunded system
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Jun 3, 20242 min read
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Having Cancer Again: The Real Work of Love
Looking back, it seems obvious that what happened to me that summer was traumatic. I was a fifteen-year-old receiving chemo for Hodgkin’s...
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Feb 6, 20242 min read
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Dancing in the Dark: How Love Heals
Besides the fact that I have never abused anyone (besides myself) in my lifetime, here is my most significant triumph over trauma: I...
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Dec 30, 20232 min read
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Far From Fifteen: Cancer at Age 53
Dread and terror are best dispersed by mundane reality. At the age of 15, as I made the final steps into my isolation room for a bone...
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Dec 8, 20232 min read
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My Unorthodox Cancer Dream Team
Trauma prepares one for trauma. I have a deep and developed knowledge of suffering. I know what it is and how I want to handle it. I know...
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Nov 5, 20232 min read
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Breast Cancer: Health, A Far Horizon
Every journey is easier once begun. So I think to myself and say to myself as I cross another threshold in the architecture of oncology....
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Oct 25, 20231 min read
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Upon the Reappearance of Cancer's Goblins
Before, during, and after my bone marrow transplant as a teenager, the experts at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center did not disguise...
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Sep 18, 20232 min read
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