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Are You a Survivor?

“Are you a group of survivors?” asks the woman in the cap. Emotional whiplash for me. My in-laws lived through the Holocaust so that’s my go-to reference for “survivor”. But the group of us, all in some version of “pink”, … Continue reading

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Everyone Needs a Navigator

“How can I help you?” Lupe Santana asked. “Well I live in Laguna”—fifty miles away, answered the man—“and I really don’t feel well and it’s hard for me to get to the hospital every day for my appointments.” “Let me … Continue reading

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Support Screen

“People will say things to a machine that they will not say to another person,” says Karen Clark, MS, program manager at the Sheri and Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center at City of Hope. On her second visit, … Continue reading

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Tale of the Attorney in Recovery

“My parents both got cancer at the same time,” says Linda Klein, operations manager of the Sheri and Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center at City of Hope. “My mother and father were able to schedule their chemotherapy at … Continue reading

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Get well NOW

A dear friend had surgery on Thursday…supposedly minor surgery. But I subscribe to the “minor surgery is what happens to someone else” way of thinking. Any time anyone is doing cutting and pasting on the body, that is a big … Continue reading

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