Ted G | What We Talk About (When We Talk About Cancer)

Happiness is no longer a cheap commodity

Ted G | Patient | 10-06-2015

Cancer takes us to place that we can’t come back from. No matter how fiercely we long for our lives and selves from when we were immortal, Continue…

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A grudge match to the end

Ted G | Patient | 10-20-2013

I’ve been in this cancer business for a while. Through tanker trucks of chemo, twice, and two transplants. Six years so far.

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The Difficult Thing About Empathy

Ted G | Patient | 07-27-2013

It’s a curious thing, feeling sick and watching those around you, who are healthy, trying to understand and empathize. Just about everyone has felt sick at some time, in some way. But we all seem to have a built-in eraser that makes it impossible…

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A Story of Care

Ted G | Patient | 05-09-2013

The winter of 2008-2009 was a terrible, cold, snowy winter and I was helplessly ill. We were scraping each day into the best series of livable moments that we could, and that was all we could do.

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This is a place where anyone who counts themselves as a member of the Mass General Cancer Center community --- patient, family member, physician, nurse, researcher, social worker, care giver, administrator --- can come to read, think, and write about the words we all use, but which we don’t always understand in the same way. Often we use words and phrases that are common, that we use every day. Yet, their very familiarity creates the illusion of common understanding where, the fact is, we are frequently using these words in radically different ways, with radically different meanings. In our small way, WWTA is meant to help us work toward a common language and make the conversations we have about cancer more meaningful.

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