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💙Stage IV Cancer #mCRC #jkfg Knock me down and i will rise STRONGER #StageIVNeedsMore #CRCsm #Kindness I want to leave the world better than I found it #ScienceIsReal #BeKind Actor, Yogini, Caretaker 2 StageIV as well
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A big lesson from my cancer diagnosis.
If you start feeling people are taking advantage of your time, just disregard those folks. Keep moving. It’s not worth your time. Live your life, and stop being on others people’s time.
Hard lesson I have learned. #Cansky
If you start feeling people are taking advantage of your time, just disregard those folks. Keep moving. It’s not worth your time. Live your life, and stop being on others people’s time.
Hard lesson I have learned. #Cansky
October 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A big lesson from my cancer diagnosis.
If you start feeling people are taking advantage of your time, just disregard those folks. Keep moving. It’s not worth your time. Live your life, and stop being on others people’s time.
Hard lesson I have learned. #Cansky
If you start feeling people are taking advantage of your time, just disregard those folks. Keep moving. It’s not worth your time. Live your life, and stop being on others people’s time.
Hard lesson I have learned. #Cansky
Kitteh is on a diet! Poor thing….
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kitteh is on a diet! Poor thing….
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I hate how post diagnosis of cancer, you can just be going through your day and be like “oh I had cancer….”.
Mind freak is real. Take care of yourself. #Cansky
Mind freak is real. Take care of yourself. #Cansky
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I hate how post diagnosis of cancer, you can just be going through your day and be like “oh I had cancer….”.
Mind freak is real. Take care of yourself. #Cansky
Mind freak is real. Take care of yourself. #Cansky
My mom had a successful heart procedure and is home & doing great! 😻
September 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My mom had a successful heart procedure and is home & doing great! 😻
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That looks pretty sunken in and droopy.
September 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
That looks pretty sunken in and droopy.
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The Falcons are simply like this
September 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Falcons are simply like this
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Sad to hear that Graham Greene has died at 73 years old
Such an amazing versatile actor with over 188 credits to his name. In addition to writing, producing & soundtrack. He won a Grammy in 2000 for the best spoken word album for children for his work on Listen to the Storyteller.
RIP Graham 💔
Such an amazing versatile actor with over 188 credits to his name. In addition to writing, producing & soundtrack. He won a Grammy in 2000 for the best spoken word album for children for his work on Listen to the Storyteller.
RIP Graham 💔
September 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Sad to hear that Graham Greene has died at 73 years old
Such an amazing versatile actor with over 188 credits to his name. In addition to writing, producing & soundtrack. He won a Grammy in 2000 for the best spoken word album for children for his work on Listen to the Storyteller.
RIP Graham 💔
Such an amazing versatile actor with over 188 credits to his name. In addition to writing, producing & soundtrack. He won a Grammy in 2000 for the best spoken word album for children for his work on Listen to the Storyteller.
RIP Graham 💔
Truth.
Hard to think through problems when we are in a mode where the current problem gets eaten by a bigger problem within hours.
August 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Truth.
Was literally at Emory yesterday for my friend'second opinion. We drove by the CDC and I waved because being an Atlantan pretty much means you know people who work there (or, did before the Repulican Party killed public health). This is so disturbing & I am so 💔.
My prayers are with our neighbors in the Emory community and with CDC workers this afternoon in the midst of this active shooter alert.
August 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Was literally at Emory yesterday for my friend'second opinion. We drove by the CDC and I waved because being an Atlantan pretty much means you know people who work there (or, did before the Repulican Party killed public health). This is so disturbing & I am so 💔.
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This is a problem #Cansky and more people
need to know it.
need to know it.
"...48% of [cancer] patients faced 2 or more legal barriers to #insurance, financial assistance, #disability benefits, #employment, and more. Accessible legal navigation services and education for care professionals are needed." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#MedSky #CanSky #PatientExperience
#MedSky #CanSky #PatientExperience
Nationwide Analysis of Legal Barriers to Cancer Care
This cohort study characterizes legal barriers to cancer care access for which patients with cancer use legal navigation services and identifies factors associated with greater need for specific areas...
jamanetwork.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is a problem #Cansky and more people
need to know it.
need to know it.
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It's so pleasant to be able to scroll on here and not endure a barrage of targeted ads 😵💫
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's so pleasant to be able to scroll on here and not endure a barrage of targeted ads 😵💫
I don't normally scanxiety too bad, but my MRI is Friday, bloods Monday and not meeting with my Onc til the 11th (we both had to schedule it this way, not an Onc issue!) has me SO damn tense. It takes A LOT to “fight” cancer in the world we are witnessing rn. #CanSky
July 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I don't normally scanxiety too bad, but my MRI is Friday, bloods Monday and not meeting with my Onc til the 11th (we both had to schedule it this way, not an Onc issue!) has me SO damn tense. It takes A LOT to “fight” cancer in the world we are witnessing rn. #CanSky
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I hope one day people remember me as someone who tried to be the best person I could be in a complicated world, I just so happened to say fuck a lot while I did it.
July 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I hope one day people remember me as someone who tried to be the best person I could be in a complicated world, I just so happened to say fuck a lot while I did it.
“This is cruelty for profit, dressed up as policy. “
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They’re jacking up ACA premiums up to 30%, not to save lives, but to fatten portfolios.
American healthcare isn’t broken. It’s rigged.
You don’t get care. You get billed.
You don’t heal. You hemorrhage money.
This is cruelty for profit, dressed up as policy.
#HealthcareGreed
American healthcare isn’t broken. It’s rigged.
You don’t get care. You get billed.
You don’t heal. You hemorrhage money.
This is cruelty for profit, dressed up as policy.
#HealthcareGreed
ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows
A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.
www.npr.org
July 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“This is cruelty for profit, dressed up as policy. “
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I'm having an MRI today, so wish me luck. This is just one I have to have periodically as part of the whole cancer thing from 2023.
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I'm having an MRI today, so wish me luck. This is just one I have to have periodically as part of the whole cancer thing from 2023.
This is an absolutely wonderful idea!
Today I delivered another 18 bags of groceries (>200 lbs) of fresh and delicious food from White Center Food Bank to 9 neighbors in White Center and Seattle for the @cascade.org #PedalingReliefProject – we use volunteers, bikes, and trailers to deliver food to neighbors who can’t visit the food bank
July 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is an absolutely wonderful idea!
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hard to surprise people with an article about pants in this news environment
July 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
hard to surprise people with an article about pants in this news environment
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Yes 100%. I love that more and more people are talking about this. For some that have had their cancer put to bed, scans are still a stressful experience. At any given moment, your life could change again. #Cansky
You’re not imagining it. That heart-racing, gut-twisting, brain-overthinking chaos before a follow-up scan has a name: scanxiety. You don’t have to be “brave.”
You just have to show up for yourself. Even scared. Even tired. Even still healing. #cancer #YouBeatCancerNowWhat #oncsky #cansky
You just have to show up for yourself. Even scared. Even tired. Even still healing. #cancer #YouBeatCancerNowWhat #oncsky #cansky
July 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yes 100%. I love that more and more people are talking about this. For some that have had their cancer put to bed, scans are still a stressful experience. At any given moment, your life could change again. #Cansky
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The dog will be far more emotionally fulfilling in your life than any person who says the words IT'S JUST A DOG, so we're clear.
July 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The dog will be far more emotionally fulfilling in your life than any person who says the words IT'S JUST A DOG, so we're clear.
Some people bucket list luxury vacations, I bucket list the Camino de Santiago, a journal and the health windows to live life in teeny 3-4 month surveillance windows. Don’t know how to plan too far ahead anymore & control has always been an illusion... Now it just slaps me in the face! 😜
July 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some people bucket list luxury vacations, I bucket list the Camino de Santiago, a journal and the health windows to live life in teeny 3-4 month surveillance windows. Don’t know how to plan too far ahead anymore & control has always been an illusion... Now it just slaps me in the face! 😜
I’m so damn tired of cancer during “unprecedented times” (initial dx was 2021, no visitors, height of pandemic) and now we’re rolling back to the dark ages, people already were struggling to access healthcare. I’m just so damn tired.
July 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’m so damn tired of cancer during “unprecedented times” (initial dx was 2021, no visitors, height of pandemic) and now we’re rolling back to the dark ages, people already were struggling to access healthcare. I’m just so damn tired.
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#Cansky remember, there is nothing wrong with advocating for yourself. A second opinion isn’t a “slight” against your doctor. Any doctor worth their merit, will encourage a second or even third opinion.
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#Cansky remember, there is nothing wrong with advocating for yourself. A second opinion isn’t a “slight” against your doctor. Any doctor worth their merit, will encourage a second or even third opinion.