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.

Surviving Liz Salmi Surviving Liz Salmi

Watch The Open Patient documentary

I am not a doctor. I am not a researcher. I am not going to come up with the cure for cancer on my own. But as a citizen scientist I can play an important role by sharing my experience with you, the reader of this blog.

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