Ovarian Cancer and Blog of the Week: Limbodacious
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This week’s featured blog is Limbodacious written by Rae, a 22-year-old who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in January 2004. Since then, Rae has undergone a series of treatments: salpingo oophorectomy, chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, radiation, and radioimmunotherapy. In August 2005, her cancer finally went into remission, but recurred again two short months later.
Limbodacious is an honest, feisty account of Rae’s life with ovarian cancer and how it has changed since her diagnosis.
It may seem inconceivable now, but I used to be the Life of the Party. The part of my brain that now works overtime coming up with metaphors to explain what life with cancer is like used to stay busy telling clever jokes and deeply discussing music and literature. The body that is now boyish and frail was once voluptuous and strong, and men turned their heads when I walked into a room. There was a time when the Big Thing in my life was telling my then-boyfriend I didn’t want to marry him.
I hope you’ll all go over to Limbodacious and help psyche Rae up to kick cancer’s butt.
For more information on ovarian cancer, see Gene Signature Predicts Ovarian Cancer Survival.
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