Patient, researcher, student blog.

Living with a slow-growing brain cancer.

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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Loopholes and loss: Why I said no to Harvard

Earlier this year I was on a roll. I had just finished chemotherapy (again), and was up for an appointment at Harvard Medical School. Things were looking favorable for me. A patient perspective at a medical school just might become a reality! Except it didn’t.

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