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.
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.
Eric Arons
I don't know why he popped up in my mind this week, but he did. I checked out his Facebook page and noticed all the recent posts were of friends posting well-wishes on his page. He wasn't writing anything. Photos appeared of him with friends... except instead of him playing disc golf, he was in a wheelchair.
Redefining the support group: my TEDx talk
Liz Salmi, a patient advocate, talks about her decision to be open and share what it is like to live and blog about living with brain cancer in 2013.