Category: Lab Life: Results Pending
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The Silver Lining of (the City of) Hope
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Moving across the country is stressful under the best of circumstances. Doing it in the midst of a cancer diagnosis and a life-changing genetic discovery? Overwhelming doesn’t even begin to cover it. When my family relocated from North Carolina to San Diego, I had no idea just how much this…
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Li-Fraumeni Syndrome & Me
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When I found out I had a TP53 mutation, I had no idea what it meant. TP53? Never heard of it. Li-Fraumeni Syndrome? Li – what? I didn’t know what it was, but the words ‘high cancer risk’ hit me like a slap. It felt like the floor had been…
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Suitcases & Scans: Navigating Cancer Between Flight Plans & Treatment Plans
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When I flew back to North Carolina, my plan was to stay for two more weeks, then head to Orlando for the girls to attend Seaworld camp for two weeks, and finally land back on the west coast full time in early August. The timing couldn’t have been worse. Trying…
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The Biopsy
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After spending a week in San Diego getting everything moved into our new place – and making an unexpected detour to the ER because Tarik decided to take a little jaunt around the U-Haul on Dakota’s broken scooter and instead broke his arm – I flew back to North Carolina…
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The Radiologist’s Room
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The day I have my mammogram, Tarik and I are packing the moving truck. We’ve been planning a move to the West Coast for some time and my finding this lump is exceptionally bad timing – as if there’s ever a good time. I’ve never had a mammogram before, but…