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How Comparing Pain Multiplies Suffering

How Comparing Pain Multiplies Suffering

How Comparing Pain Multiplies Suffering

She wanted to talk to me about cancer, but she hesitated. She was worried because she thought her cancer wasn’t as bad as mine. When I finally realized the reason for the hesitation, for the trepidation in her voice, my heart dropped. She had just…

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Favorites

How Not to Say the Wrong Thing When Someone is Grieving – and what to say instead

How Not to Say the Wrong Thing When Someone is Grieving – and what to say instead

How Not to Say the Wrong Thing When Someone is Grieving – and what to say instead

Why is it so easy to say the wrong thing when someone is grieving? Death is universal. It happens everywhere, and eventually, to everyone. Why are we not taught, from childhood, how to respond when someone experiences a loss? It’s such a challenge, and for…

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Cancer & Mental Health

Living with Dying: Thoughts on friendship and cancer

Living with Dying: Thoughts on friendship and cancer

Living with Dying: Thoughts on friendship and cancer

I get by with a little help from my friends

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Living with Cancer

Normalizing – in a good way

Normalizing – in a good way

Normalizing – in a good way

“People give you 3 months to mourn, and a year to have cancer, then they expect you to get back to normal.” I don’t know where I heard this quote first, but I’ve experienced the truth of the statement both in terms of mourning and…

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Adventure

The Big Easy

We spent the evening walking down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, The Big Easy. It’s Friday night, and I’m told much tamer than the partying a few nights earlier on Fat Tuesday. My friends and I stand at the corner waiting…

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Advocacy

Why Mommy: remembering Susan Niebur

Why Mommy: remembering Susan Niebur

Why Mommy: remembering Susan Niebur

In the cold, dark, fear of 3 a.m., when the cancer patient is most alone, I found ToddlerPlanet, a blog written by cancer fighting princess warrior, awesome mommy, and astrophysicist, Susan Niebur (also known as @whymommy).

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