Do all diseases have t-shirts, or is it just cancer?

On Treatment
Written By Liz Salmi
Photo: Digging my t-shirt from Stand Up 2 Cancer.

Photo: Digging my t-shirt from Stand Up 2 Cancer.

I hate overhead self-portraits taken from a cell phone more than the next person, but I had to get this shot as I headed out the door for a run in my new "In the Fight" t-shirt.

Kudos to Stand Up to Cancer for getting this shirt to me within two days after I ordered it.

This makes me wonder... are there t-shirts for other diseases?

I've never seen anyone walking around with a sickle cell anemia shirt on.

Do people with other diseases roll their eyes when they see us cancer people running around with our "cancer pride" shirts on?

Maybe I am totally ridiculous.

Liz Salmi

Liz Salmi is Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in “patient engagement” research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in national educational and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination. It is rumored Liz was the drummer in a punk rock band.

https://thelizarmy.com
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