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.

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What art can do to us

With cancer I think about death more than I did before, and when faced with situations filled with extreme beauty and emotion I breathe in each moment knowing it may be the last time I experience it. The Rothko painting was a special moment for me. I don't want it to be my last.

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