Tag: cancer
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Cancer and the Pain of Isolation
A dear friend of mine is living with Stage 4 cancer and I asked him to write a guest post about his life with cancer. Here is what he had to say. It is not all sunshine and roses I am afraid. I will get more of a bio from my friend later. Cancer is isolating,…
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Prostate Cancer – not Prostrate Cancer
This year alone, 26,500 Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. One in seven men in British Columbia will develop the disease and 4000 men across the country will die from it. The Prostate Cancer Foundation of British Columbia is coming to Dogwood Pavilion on Friday, November 14 at 1:00 p.m. to help people…
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In Real Life Cancer Sucks
Awhile ago I wrote a little blog post about a friend of mine who found out that he had cancer. I wrote about how his situation reminded me of the 1980s show thirtysomething where one of the characters got cancer. On the show thirtysomething the woman beat her cancer and the show was cancelled before…
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In Case You Were Wondering Why the Emotional Overload
I remember a television show from the late 1980s, a show titled thirtysomething. In case you are too young to remember, or in case you have forgotten the 1980s (I’m still trying to forget that I paid to see Def Leppard in concert) the show was about a group of friends who were, wait for…