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.

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How I chose the Cognitive Science major at UC Davis: A process of elimination

I'm excited to share that my latest stint at community college is complete, and I'm on to university-level education to study Cognitive Science at the University of California, Davis. So how did a 47-year-old, brain cancer patient advocate with a background in communications, patient advocacy, and health services research come to choose this major? Excellent question.

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