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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Other people's cancer

Sometimes I am so pissed at the world of brain cancer that I look at other cancers like they are inferior and not as crazy or as bad. But that is a bullshit mentality. I look at this girl and all the fucked-up-ness she's endured and realize that all cancers are evil.

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