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Whenever I have questions about credit issues and how to best allocate money, I call my friend Joan Reading who heads the nonprofit Credit Counseling…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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Prepare for escalating medical costs by taking a hard look at your current household budget and expenses and see if there’s any place that can…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
Credit Karma – This is a pretty good Web site for anything credit. This links speaks exclusively to medical debt. Bankrate.com – Best known for its…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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It took me most of the day, but by the end of Friday I mailed off a 100-page financial assistance questionnaire and supporting documentation to…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
I had a plan for this week, an ambitious, experimental plan. I wanted to try a new diet that’s recommended by body-builder-cancer researcher Dom D’Agastino,…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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Late last night, as I fought to hold my stake of the six inches of mattress that wasn’t occupied by my sprawled-out labrador or my…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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There should be a billboard outside the doctor’s office the day you’re diagnosed that reads “You’ve just left ‘It’s probably nothing.'” Certainly it should be…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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Time is compressing. I started my last post with “what a difference a year makes.” Today, I say, what a difference a week makes. I…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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May 1 is a day of seduction. Without fail, it arrives cloudless and sunny, warm and fragrant, casting off the vestiges of a cruel winter. …
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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While none of us can know how much longer we have to live, being diagnosed with an incurable cancer makes you start doing some math…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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I’m pleased to share the second #MetsMonday featured post. This one is from Liz Johnson, blogger at Breast Cancer Conscript. Liz was diagnosed with metastatic…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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When the President signed the Right to Try law at the end of May, I suddenly went from persona non gratis as a #preexisting condition…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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Maybe you’ve heard of it: Personalized medicine. Or sometimes it’s called precision medicine. The idea is that through a series of tests, researchers decode a…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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Today is #worldcancerday and forgive me if I’m a bit cynical. But looking through Google’s news feed on the subject, I can’t help but wonder…
Liz JohnsonJanuary 19, 2020
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