Category: Cancer

Real Talk Episode 25-6: A Seven-Month Journey to Cancer-Free

From the moment a colonoscopy revealed my rectal tumor to the day surgeons removed it—leaving me cancer-free and living with a permanent ostomy—exactly 7...

  • August 07, 2025

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Stomas Save Lives

Today was my first visit to Cancer Care in months and hopefully it will be one of my last because I am officially CANCER...

  • April 23, 2025

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Beware of private health care

I used to believe the story—hook, line, and sinker. That if we allowed a two-tiered system in Canada, people who could afford to pay...

  • April 21, 2025

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Poop Talk! Episode 25-4

On this week’s episode of Real Talk, we’re talking 💩 — or more accurately, why so many people don’t want to talk about it....

  • April 16, 2025

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Raging Against the Dying of the Light: Life After Cancer Surgery

I always thought I understood resilience. Life has tested me more times than I can count—poverty, abuse, addiction, loss. I have fought through it...

  • March 28, 2025

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Apple Cider Vinegar – a review

I’m scared. In a few weeks, I will lose an organ. A part of my body that has always been mine will be gone...

  • March 25, 2025

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