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Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the ensuing war, which has become the longest ever fought by America’s armed forces.
As part of the Create Forever campaign with FUJIFILM, we got a chance to sit down with the legendary Ira Glass and explore why he creates along with what it takes to find that thing that only you can make.
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Going through cancer treatment can be an emotional roller coaster. Psychiatric Oncologist Dr. Wendy Baer gives some tips to keep you moving forward.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Billie Jean King—longtime champion for social justice, former No.
Ellis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at 16 years old. Fatigue made it difficult to do full days at school. He also had to give up basketball, his favourite sport. Ellis’ treatment affected his immune system.
Running Wild: More than Scars uses the analogy of an endurance event to depict the full scope of a cancer journey. An endurance event has a training phase, race, and recovery phase. Facing a cancer diagnosis and moving through it follows the same pattern.
It may be obvious that effort and stamina are required to accomplish anything worthwhile in life. But how easy is it to forget this fact in moments when we feel tortoise-like relative to our seemingly hare-like peers?
Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen.
In the end, I fall back on one statement that I repeat to myself pretty often. “We are not given the burdens we deserve, we are given the burdens we can bear.”
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
