For as long as I can remember, I’ve been tired and achy. As a child I was told that eating better would give me more energy (I was a picky eater) or that the aches were simply growing pains. I would outgrow it, so they said. Flash forward to 2008. …
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Growing up, I can’t say I was always a happy child. I was very impulsive, sensitive, self-destructive and extremely anxious. Some would argue this was caused by the bullying that I had endured for most of my life, but I’ll never know if I would’ve been diagnosed with clinical depression …
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I saw my amazing chemo oncologist physician’s assistant today. I was diagnosed with acinic cell carcinoma of the parotid gland, HER2 receptor positive, in April of 2010. I had 35 radiations, 25 weekly carbo and Taxol treatments, and 1 year of weekly Herceptin. I was allergic to all of the …
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