The Liz Army:
A blog
Patient. Patient advocate. Researcher. Student.
There are more than 500 posts here. Use this search to look for something specific. Good luck!
A note about my oldest posts: I began blogging about brain cancer in 2008, at age 29. I had no background or knowledge about healthcare when I started. Please excuse typos and other misconceptions. What you read here is me in real time, like a time capsule.
Spoiler alert, I'm still alive: 10 years later
I have had a brain tumor for one quarter of my life. I am the same person I was before but I am completely changed.
Oh yeah, I have brain cancer
I realize that I will have brain cancer for the rest of my life. At some point this will not be new, it is just a part of who I am. I suppose all people feel this way when their life changes—they become a parent, the death of a loved one, the passage of a major milestone.