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COVID-19, cancer, and coping
“My cancer diagnosis prepared me for this new and uncertain world. I know how to exist in unknowns, I have built that resilience. Here are some ways that I’m adapting my past experiences for today.”
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How to magically flip failure on its head after cancer
“Most of the answers basically proved I hung my identity on what everyone and everything else defined as success. Holy shit.”
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Survivor Profile
Megan Muloin
A little bit about you: Name: Megan Muloin Age: 24 City: Victoria, BC What was/is your diagnosis? Hodgkin’s Lymphoma stage 2 bulky What was your age at the time? 19…
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Veronica Presz
A little bit about you: Name: Veronica Presz Age: 33 City: Oakville, ON What was/is your diagnosis? Appendix cancer What year was it? What was your age at the time?…
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“Self advocacy”: What does it mean?
“My role as a self activist began the day I experienced symptoms. I woke up with blurred vision in my left eye. I was 27; this wasn’t normal.”
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Overcoming my prognosis
“I was the perfectly optimistic cancer patient in public. At night, alone, I was laying awake for hours picking out the songs I wanted played at my funeral or the poems I wanted read.”
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Survivor Profile
Adam Van Hove – with updates!
A little about you Name: Adam Van Hove Age: 30 City: Norfolk County (between Delhi and Simcoe) What was/is your diagnosis? Burkett’s Lymphoma What year was it? What was your age at the time? August…
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Moving forward
Jenn recently accepted the sense of “normalcy” she felt three years ago is gone, but she’s pretty happy with where she finds herself today.
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Accepting mortality
“The choice to follow my value systems in front of everything cancer has taken away from me is what makes me empowered, happy, content, and peaceful.”
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What I wish I knew
“Together with my peers I have compiled a list of all the things I wish I knew. I hope this list can give you guidance where you need it.”
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Jenn reflects on life three years after her diagnosis
Jenn planned to make 2017 her year, until she woke up on January 1 and found a lump in her breast.
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Survivor Profile
Kelly Armstrong
A little bit about you: Name: Kelly Age: 38 City: Toronto, ON What was/is your diagnosis? Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma What year was it? What was your age at the time? Diagnosed…
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Loving someone with cancer
This post is all about my guy and how he views our long, tedious, pain-in-the-caboose dance with cancer because at the end of the end of the day, he now lives with cancer, too.
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Leanna McKay
A little bit about you: Name: Leanna McKay Age: 36 City: Calgary, AB What was/is your diagnosis? Stage 3b colorectal cancer with ovarian mets What year was it? What was…
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