I finally pulled the trigger on something I’ve been thinking about and working toward for more than a year. I resigned my volunteer leadership role…
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colorectal cancer
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The precarity of life — the topic I write about most often these days — made itself known again this weekend. Precarity, to me, is…
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Dear Mr. President, I expect you get thousands of letters each week so I hope this one makes it to your desk. I got the…
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One of my favorite actors on one of my all-time favorite shows is making colostomy news this week. And not in a great way. Friends…
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When I experienced my first colonoscopy in 2012, saying ”bottom’s up” beforehand was laugh out loud funny. Ten years later it still is, but my…
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It wasn’t quite the Tangina Barrons moment I was hoping for. Remember the scene from the movie Poltergeist, after Tangina (a medium played memorably by the…
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Learning you need a colostomy, whether temporary or permanent, can be nearly as devastating for some patients as hearing the words, “you have cancer.” As…
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I recently had the opportunity to serve as a consumer reviewer to evaluate research applications submitted to the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) sponsored…
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I got a phone call out of the blue today, while I was driving home from Nashville, where I’d been with colleagues at our state…
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Today, August 14, marks three years since one of the pivotal moments of my life: when my surgeon, the amazing Dr. Greg Midis, told the…