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.
Nobody knows you’re a patient: Getting used to identifying as a researcher
This sense of being an outsider is due in part to imposter syndrome, and in part due to not having many people who look like me in research. And by “look like me,” I mean people who successfully entered the realm of research through a nontraditional path… as a patient first.
Major life update: From patient to patient-researcher
I am still that punk rock drummer turned brain cancer patient—but now I work for an academic medical center on research and research dissemination.
Spoiler alert, I'm still alive: 10 years later
I have had a brain tumor for one quarter of my life. I am the same person I was before but I am completely changed.