About
I Lived It
We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we have one.
You were just given a diagnosis - you’re sitting at your kitchen table asking yourself “What’s Next ” ?
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I know where you are right now, I have shed the same tears.
As a Ground Zero 9/11 Cancer Patient I’ve made a choice to turn my private experience inside out so I can of help you. 2021 is the Twentieth Anniversary of those attacks and as time marches on it’s clear to me that being able to say we are winners comes down to knowing we are helping others in the best way we can. If I can help you we both win, then later you can help whoever you chose to - but for now lets start with you and me right now.
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"It's a lightweight poplin," is how the doctor described the blazer he was wearing during the same conversation he was telling me I had a very rare and complicated cancer diagnosis.
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My naïveté about fashion and whatever poplin is was just the beginning, it turns out I was going to be tested over and over again by a process that assumes patients and their family are subject matter
Christian Martin, Founder of 1 to 10
experts on being sick. The punchline is we are not nor can we be, no one is really prepared for this journey.
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Chemo, Surgery, Radiation, ImmunoTherapy, Counseling, Homeopathic, Rehab, Billing, Meditation, Visting Nurses, Waiting Rooms, Treatment Centers, TeleHealth, Handicap Parking etc. You are about to go through some or all of this. I made an uninformed choice to tackle this process by myself, let's decide right now that you do not have to do this alone.