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.
Dear everyone with an oligoastrocytoma: Your diagnosis just changed
As more and more pathologists and doctors begin treating patients based on the genome of their tumor it only makes sense for the WHO to update their classification of CNS tumors. Because science.
I wish Brittany Maynard had met other 29-year-olds with brain cancer
I have known people who have died from brain cancer, and I know people who are still living with this disease. I wanted to tell Brittany to wait it out--you don't know how fast these things will bring you down. I wish Brittany gave herself time to meet other people like herself and to find out what life can be like for a 29-year-old with brain cancer. But who am I to tell a stranger what to do?
Holy shit: nearly five years since first seizure, happy birthday to me
I never want to be a woman who hides her age. Every year I am older is another year I am alive. I am living with this disease.
Questions submitted for the 2012 National Brain Tumor Society Summit
Before I left for the National Brain Tumor Society's annual summit I asked The Liz Army blog readers if you had questions you would like me to ask doctors and health care professionals I would presumably meet at the event.
MRI one-year post Temodar chemotherapy
Since I am psychic, and have answered a million questions about brain scans, I am going to answer all the questions I know you have.
To have a slow-growing brain tumor
"But really, aren't there cases when grade twos just stay a grade two forever?" I implied that with my youth, health and intelligence, someone as awesome as I must be spared from this injustice.