LUNGevity Advocate Dan Powell
2013 was the best year of my life. I was newly married to the girl of my dreams. We had a new house. I adopted her son and had major career advances (winning multi-million dollar grants for our...
View ArticleA Permanent Reminder
Never say Never… Admit it; we have all declared at one time, in some way, “I will never…!” I know I have. There are many things I said I would never do that have been refuted, but one thing I said I...
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by Tracy Anderson When people hear that I am a lung cancer survivor (5 years cancer free come Dec. 17, 2014) and the stage it was discovered, they look at me as if I am a big foot… you hear about them...
View ArticleA Strange Place to Live In
“If I had a gazillion dollars I would fund massive education programs for oncologists, getting them up to date on stage IV so that I don’t have to hear any more stories about people being sent home to...
View ArticleNo Longer Alone
Alisa was too busy caring for her mom, who was fighting cancer, to pay any attention to her own health. She was a single mom to twin boys, her mother’s caregiver and was working full time. Alisa just...
View ArticleLive Long and Prosper
by Jeff Ehlers Introducing a new blog series- A Year in the Life of a Lung Cancer Survivor Bookmark our blog as we chronicle Jeff’s experience in bite size blogs posted once a week. “According to...
View ArticleScans and Signs
A Year in the Life of a Lung Cancer Survivor – start from the beginning here and bookmark our blog as we chronicle Jeff’s experience in bite size blogs posted once a week. “According to the notes I’ve...
View ArticleSpilled Milk
A Year in the Life of a Lung Cancer Survivor – start from the beginning here and bookmark our blog as we chronicle Jeff’s experience in bite size blogs posted once a week. “According to the notes I’ve...
View ArticleChanging the Lung Cancer Conversation
This blog is something I’ve been thinking about for a very long time. I’ve hesitated to write about it, with the fear of being misunderstood, but I think it’s important enough to take that risk....
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