It took me most of the day, but by the end of Friday I mailed off a 100-page financial assistance questionnaire and supporting documentation to…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Late last night, as I fought to hold my stake of the six inches of mattress that wasn’t occupied by my sprawled-out labrador or my…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
There’s nothing like a cancer journey to show you that life’s twists and turns are sharp curves along steep drop-offs. Take my friend Beth Caldwell…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
There should be a billboard outside the doctor’s office the day you’re diagnosed that reads “You’ve just left ‘It’s probably nothing.'” Certainly it should be…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
I learned today, even if it was painful and horrifying -James Altucher Author of Choose Yourself
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
What a difference a year makes. At the end of 2016, then President Obama signed off on the 21st Century Cures Act, a bipartisan effort…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Time is compressing. I started my last post with “what a difference a year makes.” Today, I say, what a difference a week makes. I…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Plan for failure some days you'll be distracted. Some team members will leave some days you'll be sick that's life the best figure out how…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
May 1 is a day of seduction. Without fail, it arrives cloudless and sunny, warm and fragrant, casting off the vestiges of a cruel winter. …
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
While none of us can know how much longer we have to live, being diagnosed with an incurable cancer makes you start doing some math…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
I’m pleased to share the second #MetsMonday featured post. This one is from Liz Johnson, blogger at Breast Cancer Conscript. Liz was diagnosed with metastatic…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
When the President signed the Right to Try law at the end of May, I suddenly went from persona non gratis as a #preexisting condition…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Maybe you’ve heard of it: Personalized medicine. Or sometimes it’s called precision medicine. The idea is that through a series of tests, researchers decode a…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Today is #worldcancerday and forgive me if I’m a bit cynical. But looking through Google’s news feed on the subject, I can’t help but wonder…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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