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Overloaded
There will be times in Cancerworld when you will feel totally overwhelmed. No matter how educated, high functioning, laid back, we are...
Tina Carter
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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Adjusting
When we get diagnosed with cancer everything kind of gets turned upside down. Instantly, within the span of a sentence, what came to us...
Tina Carter
Aug 24, 20232 min read
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Doom
We are susceptible to fits of doom. They say not to wait until someone's funeral to say nice things about them. (It's okay to mention...
Tina Carter
Aug 14, 20232 min read
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Moving
There will be many days when doing nothing seems like the absolute only choice. And, while we hope we don't have many of those days we...
Tina Carter
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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Ports
Ports are a surgical device placed in your chest by a surgeon that allows chemo to be delivered direct to a vein. This allows consistent...
Tina Carter
Aug 10, 20232 min read
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Hydration
When you get cancer, folks offer all kinds of (sometimes wacky) advice. So I offer the following observation (dude, it's not advice,...
Tina Carter
Aug 4, 20232 min read
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Help
When you enter cancerworld, things change. Even if you consider your cancerworld experience "easy" or your travel short, things change. ...
Tina Carter
Aug 3, 20232 min read
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Googling
We all know that when we are diagnosed we crave more information (or re-assurance). That is normal. And when health professionals advise...
Tina Carter
Jul 26, 20232 min read
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Advice
Sometimes people say incredibly insensitive, stupid, or hurtful things in a weird attempt to "comfort" us (or themselves?). The best...
Tina Carter
Jul 20, 20231 min read
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