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Grit & living with illness

Below are the best resources we could find on Grit and living with illness.

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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer

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.

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What Cancer Takes Away

When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.

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Grit and Grace: Fighting Breast Cancer One Step at a Time

Grit and Grace offers readers a window into the physical and emotional world of a breast cancer patient. The author includes blog posts she wrote during treatment as well as more recent reflections from her perspective as a breast cancer survivor.

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Betrayed by My Body, Not by Life

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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The Man in the Arena: Surviving Multiple Myeloma Since 1992

James Bond’s survival of multiple myeloma since 1992 is an amazing story of challenge, tenacity, hard work and good fortune. In this book Jim shares his and his caregiver wife’s, Kathleen, approaches, experiences and difficulties in navigating a deadly, incurable blood cancer.

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Running Wild: More than Scars

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.

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Faith, Hope and Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer

Inspiring lessons learned from people living with cancer.

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Season 3, Episode 2: Back to the Drawing Board

John was diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumors in March of 2010. John talks about artistically rendering tumors as monstrous embodiments of self, negotiating and battling with them through various chemotherapy protocols, surgeries and clinical trials.

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Season 2, Episode 7: You Matter, Speak Up

Deatrice didn't ask for cancer, and she never knew how strong she was until she had no other choice but to be strong. The obstacles and systemic disparities she encountered forced her to find her voice and become her own strongest advocate.

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