Patient, researcher, student blog.

Living with a slow-growing brain cancer.

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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.

Surviving Liz Salmi Surviving Liz Salmi

Erin: founding member

But in the spirit of Erin and her outright frankness, I feel it is my duty to admit that she will be next, in a line of amazing people I've known, to lose their life to a brain tumor.

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