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Don’t give up the fight!
July is sarcoma awareness month so I’ve invited others affected by sarcoma to guest blog throughout the month. Today’s blog comes from Suzanne Burkhart, wife to a sarcoma angel, Jim Burkhart. When my husband Jim told me he had Sarcoma, I looked at him and said “Are you sure the doctor didn’t say ‘Carcinoma’”?…
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Frazzled
The tension in the work room was mounting. The research coordinator sat next to physician’s assistant who was waiting eagerly by the phone. She was waiting for a phone call from the radiologist. I knew who this was for as I had walked by the room multiple times and seen the patient pacing up and…
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Nik Jiruska: Ewing’s Sarcoma Survivor.
July is sarcoma awareness month so I’ve invited others affected by sarcoma to guest blog throughout the month. Today’s blog comes from Nik Jiruska, a young man who battled Ewing’s sarcoma. Enjoy. My name is Nikolas Jiruska and I recently finished receiving chemotherapy treatments to fight a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma.…
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Yell
Her face was ashen as she walked into the clinic room. Her movements were slow, and deliberate. She was clearly significantly fatigued. Not the bubbly person I knew her to be 2 weeks ago. Clearly something was amiss. I was walking to see another patient, but my critical eye could not dismiss that my patient…
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Invitation
“Just tell him he has more than 4 weeks to live”, her eyes welled up with tears. I reached for the tissues that are so conveniently placed in every room in the cancer center. He had sarcoma in his lungs, and the surgeon could not remove them after taking him to the operating room. He…
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