The late summer teal dusk of September is leaving us. You did know that September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and that teal is the ribbon color, didn’t you? And of course you saw the woman with Teal Toes. Oh I guess not, since she’s in Chicago, and you’re in Cincinnati. But you must have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘randy pausch’
Cancer and the Color Wars: Pink? Teal? Purple?
Posted in Cancer, Pop Culture, Woman Up, tagged breast, color wars, ovarian, pancreatic, randy pausch on September 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Think Purple
Posted in Cancer, tagged pancreatic cancer survivor, randy pausch on November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Walk a mile in their shoes: Your doctor says you have a 25 percent chance of living one year. One, not five. One year. And even then, it’s just a one in four chance. Most pancreatic cancer patients die six to nine months after diagnosis. Pancreatic cancer research is [...]
Mad as Hell
Posted in Cancer, tagged colon cancer survivor, leroy sievers, pancreatic cancer survivor, randy pausch on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Journalist and cancer patient Leroy Sievers is dead. He was 53 years old. Many National Public Radio fans know his name, as do former viewers of the TV news show Nightline. I became aware of Sievers on a subliminal level in April 2004 when I watched the controversial Nightline program “The Fallen,” which Sievers initiated. At that [...]
In Memory
Posted in Cancer, tagged last lecture, lobby congress, pancreatic cancer, randy pausch on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been out of the loop. I just found out that 47-year-old professor Randy Pausch died of pancreatic cancer on July 25. I did not know him. I watched his last lecture and his 8-minute testimony before congress. I did send him this email: I thought about people like you after I was diagnosed with stage III [...]
Cancer Mythology
Posted in Cancer, tagged cancer myth, cancer survivor, negative, positive, randy pausch on June 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Cancer is something of a mystery even to the experts. We use one term to describe what may in truth be a thousand different diseases. Already most cancers are divided into dozens of subtypes, not to mention subtypes within subtypes. Most babyboomers can recall their parents saying to one another: “Stop worrying! You’re going to give yourself an ulcer.” Then [...]
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