By Andrea Wilson Woods When my 15-year-old sister Adrienne was diagnosed with stage IV liver cancer, I was beyond devastated. I was Adrienne’s legal guardian, and I had raised her from the age of eight. I could not imagine my life without her. Yet, her cancer journey only lasted 147 days. The … [Read more...] about What the Patient Wants … Why You Need to Treat Others the Way They Want to be Treated
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Teaching Resilience, Courage, and Perseverance by Barbi Appelquist
Three years ago this weekend, I was diagnosed with my second cancer, a soft-tissue sarcoma. I remember with haunting clarity the early days and months of my diagnosis. This morning, I read a CNN article that highlighted how, in the United States, cancer will bypass heart disease as the No. 1 cause … [Read more...] about Teaching Resilience, Courage, and Perseverance by Barbi Appelquist