Our discussion about “Battling” continues on, but here is what we have discussed so far. This was an interesting debate, not because there was lot of disagreement about whether battling is Continue…
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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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Throughout my childhood, I always understood that a battle had two sides, a win or a loss; where winning was great but losing, not…
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Can we be at war with disease in our body? Are chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation really weapons? Are doctors, nurses and your care…
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To me, battling is a part of the language of oncology that concentrates too much on the imagery of cancer as a war. Battling brings to mind fighting, a struggle, often against…
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I don’t think of myself as a fighter – more like a nerdy, resourceful, resilient problem solver. Along with my general aversion to militaristic language in everyday speech, I really don’t like thinking about or…
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