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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Flashback: A play-by-play of my life in 2017

As I transfer a terabyte of data from my OpenNotes (work) laptop to my new (school) laptop, I'm running across fragments of unpublished blog posts about my life between 2017 and 2026. Here's a post I never shared, outlining my whirlwind new life after I quit my job to join the full-time world of patient-partnered research.

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