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Spilling Tea with the G’s: Sn 2 – Ep 8 – Whitney Hadley and Stefanie Thomas
February 2, 2021We’re back with two of our favorite Cleveland medical professionals, Whitney Hadley and Stefanie Thomas! Whitney and Stefanie are both on the board for the Steven G. Cancer Foundation and Elephants and Tea.
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To My Younger Self…Would You Believe Me?
Words may not express all my feelings to you as you will be faced with so many challenges later on. How can you prepare a child for all the issues that adults face? Whilst everyone’s childhood supposed to be filled with toys, joy, wonderful family memories, mine was a little different.
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Reflection
As I write this letter, I’m imagining you standing in front of your mirror at 16 years old, only a few months past finishing chemo and radiation. It’s around 2:00 p.m., you’re contorting your body in a way that makes you appear as thin as possible for a selfie, and all you’ve had to eat today is a bowl of plain oatmeal with blueberries because you are terrified of any food that isn’t considered “clean.”
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How That C Word Rocked My World
It’s been just over three months to the day since I found out that I had a golf ball sized brain tumor in my right frontal lobe. Just about a month after that I found out that it was a grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma, a very aggressive form of brain cancer.
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Seven years. I’ve looked forward to today basically all of 2020 so far, as I do every spring. In the dreary winter and rainy spring months, March 18th is the day that I live for, and defines the first quarter of the year for me. But I’m spending it so differently from what I had planned, as I’m sure you are.
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