muir-torre syndrome Archives

A Cancer Journey: Endurance, Part 5

Submitted for your perusal: a partial list of additional aggravations (and sometimes traumas) inflicted by “imperfections” in the healthcare system…

Submitted for your perusal: a partial list of emotional traumas…

Submitted for your perusal: a partial list of painful, time-consuming procedures, treatments, and surgeries…

Submitted for your perusal: a partial list of physical traumas…

Some things don’t hurt at all…

Cancer doesn’t just rob you of your future…

Time to close this series out with some empowering takeaways…

I don’t have children–by choice–a decision, by the way, that has nothing to do with my Lynch Syndrome diagnosis.

I don’t have children–by choice–a decision, by the way, that has nothing to do with my Lynch Syndrome diagnosis.

I was already retired and fully vested in my health insurance program when I learned I had Lynch Syndrome.

Since 2012, I have been under surveillance for the long list of possible Lynch/Muir-Torre Syndrome cancers…

At first, I was devastated by the diagnosis…