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.
A little tumble down the stairs can't keep me from fighting cancer
The HR people told me I should leave and go to the hospital to get checked out. But I couldn't... today was an important day because I had to go to the UC Davis AYA Cancer Advisory Board meeting. There was no way I was going to miss my first meeting. I didn't want to be a flake.
Neurosurgeons: They better want to be there
The average actual salary of a neurosurgeon is $470,000.
Best looking person with brain cancer
You are the best looking person with brain cancer I have ever seen!
The meaning of the cancer tattoo
The octopus in my tattoo represents a combination of things. It is the chemotherapy drug that, once passed through the blood-brain barrier, seeps through my brain tissue, finds the tentacles of my tumor, killing cancerous cells. The octopus can also represent a mental image of a smart creature protecting me from the claws of a crab.
Cancer-inspired tattoo is ruling my world
Instead of having a surgery this year (like I've had for the past three years), I'm consenting to a brain cancer-inspired tattoo.
Use it or lose it: the no-exercise confession
The bad thing was that the odd sensation I get while exercising due to sensory loss from my last brain surgery was overly weird and disconcerting. That's right... the thing most out of shape was my body's response to brain damage.
Each moment is bittersweet
“Are you ever afraid that one day I will be dead and you wish you cuddled me more?”
If only I got a dollar for every brain cancer scam on the Internet
If he was really concerned about the health and safety of his co-workers he could have said he'd read an article about this thing called cigarettes and that they've been proven to cause lung cancer.