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A Blogger's Cancer Journey
S.L. Wisenberg keeps a blog to release the emotions and anxiety stemming from her battle with cancer. The series shares excerpts from her blog—and her journey.
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A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 19  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg brings us the final installment from her series of reflections on breast cancer.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 18  
S.L. Wisenberg shares another installment from her blog about surviving cancer.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 17  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg ponders the well-meaning, but inept, ways the state reaches out to people with cancer, like herself.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 16  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg, who blogs about life with breast cancer, reflects on the loss of her friend's son.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 15  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg shares another installment from her blog.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 14  
S.L. Wisenberg shares another installment from her blog about surviving cancer
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 13  
When Chicago writer S.L. Wisenberg tells a boy from her neighborhood that she has cancer, it triggers a wave of memories for both of them.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 12  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg shares an excerpt of her blog about life with breast cancer, and we catch her on a day when her spirits are high.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 11  
Chicago writer S.L. Wisenberg shares her feelings of loss and disorientation directly after her mastectomy.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 10  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg continues her series of reflections on her battle with breast cancer.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 9  
Since her diagnosis with breast cancer, writer S.L. Wisenberg has been pondering a lot of things—including what she thinks about all the races for the cure and pink ribbons. This is the latest installment excerpted from her online journal.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 8  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg reflects on her “pride and joy” and shares her apprehensions about chemotherapy. Her essay is part of a series of excerpts from her blog about life with breast cancer.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 7  
In this excerpt from her blog about breast cancer, writer S.L. Wisenberg learns how exactly a doctor reconstructs a breast.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 6  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg reflects on how much she's had to learn—in some ways, unwillingly—about breast cancer since her diagnosis earlier this year. Her story is part of an ongoing series excerpted from her online journal about life with the disease.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 5  
Writer S.L. Wisenberg reflects on the disparities in health-care treatment and how her family has always gone to great lengths to get the best care. This is the latest excerpt from Wisenberg's blog about life with breast cancer.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 4  
We continue sharing excerpts of S.L. Wisenberg's blog about coping with breast cancer. We pick up her story just a few weeks after she found out she had the disease.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 3  
We've been sharing excerpts of S.L. Wisenberg's blog about coping with breast cancer. In this excerpt, she makes a disturbing realization about the role genes play in determining who gets the disease.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey: Part 2  
We continue sharing excerpts of S.L. Wisenberg's blog about her discovery earlier this year that she has breast cancer. Wisenberg is a writer and university professor.
A Blogger's Cancer Journey  
S. L. Wisenberg was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. She's found a way to release her emotions and anxiety—by keeping an online diary. We begin a series sharing excerpts of her blog.
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