Hello world! The inaugural video introducing “Coupla Sick Chicks Sittin’ Around Talkin’.” Friends for 20 years, Julie Levine (stage III breast cancer, dx 2008) and Donna Trussell (stage III ovarian cancer, dx 2001) will meet every week to discuss survival, family and life.
Posts Tagged ‘ovarian cancer’
Coupla Sick Chicks
Posted in Cancer, tagged breast cancer, friends, ovarian cancer, survival on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thorpe Menn Award
Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged aauw, john mark eberhart, kansas city library, matthew eck, ovarian cancer, thorpe menn, what's right about what's wrong on October 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
[ed. note: Speech I gave at the luncheon sponsored by the American Association of University Women and the Kansas City Public Library on October 3, 2009 after my book What's Right About What's Wrong won the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Excellence. Pictures from the event here.] ~ ~ ~ Anyone who’s read What’s Right [...]
My Years of Not-So-Magical Thinking
Posted in Cancer, tagged ca125 test, ovarian cancer, recurrence, survivor on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research has confirmed what I long suspected: Early diagnosis of cancer recurrence provides no survival advantage. Doubts on Ovarian Cancer Relapse Test. In the years after my diagnosis of ovarian cancer – on the morning of Sept. 12, 2001 – simple observation suggested that if I recurred, my next move wouldn’t much matter. Further treatment [...]
Gratitude, Come Hither
Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged cancer survivor, oncologist, ovarian cancer on November 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Post-cancer gratitude can be elusive. Many gratitude books and sites populate the world, but I believe gratitude forced is not gratitude, but rather an I’m-eating-my-broccoli exercise, often followed by acute indigestion. Like most writers, I put a high premium on honesty. But one man’s honesty is another man’s lack of social graces. You can’t just [...]
Teal, We Hardly Knew Ye
Posted in Cancer, tagged breast cancer, cancer survivor, ovarian cancer on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s October. Also known as Pink Nausea to Matthew Zachary and his merry band of upstarts at I’m Too Young for This and The Stupid Cancer Blog. Breast Cancer Action says Think Before you Pink! But don’t think before reading In the Name of Pinkness by the wonderful poet and breast-cancer survivor Alysa Cummings. PINK PINK PINK PINK [...]
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