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		<title>Excellent Cancer Survivor Movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent 14 minute movie with young people and their powerful stories of cancer &#8211; many wise words in their stories!  I absolutely loved it! Ebb &#38; Flow: Storytelling for Cancer Survivors &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1457&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Firsts Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went out to our company Christmas dinner and party.  I had a nice time socializing and drinking some wine   and then this morning I realized, last night was the first time since 2007, the year I &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/time-for-firsts-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1448&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Well</title>
		<link>http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/to-be-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be well again would be the cat&#8217;s pajamas!  Not that I&#8217;m sick and yucky like I was in chemo (blah!), but you know, I just don&#8217;t have that pep in my step any more, and that&#8217;s what I want &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/to-be-well/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1445&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Courage then, and Courage still</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last four years writing about dancing with cancer, about having courage and hope even when I didn&#8217;t feel it myself.  I wrote about treatments, reconstruction, depression, side-effects, losing friends to this #%@$ disease,  hope and transitioning from &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/courage-then-and-courage-still/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1435&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer I Hate You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cancer advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a powerful story of a young cancer survivor I lost one of my best friends to cancer, she was only 31 after battling cancer for almost three years.  I hate cancer and may we soon stop this #@% &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/cancer-i-hate-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1430&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Roller</title>
		<link>http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/baby-roller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to go and join a cancer support group &#8211; it&#8217;s funny after 3 years that I finally have to break down and join one, but my fear of recurrence is getting the better of me &#8211; the last &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/baby-roller/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1426&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Reflection</title>
		<link>http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/self-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time to let my soul catch up with me, I&#8217;ve been at hittin&#8217; the road hard since I had my mediport removed 3 years and 1 week ago.  I&#8217;m back in Alaska, I left WA to return home &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/self-reflection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1412&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Real or is it Hollywood?</title>
		<link>http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/is-it-real-or-is-it-hollywood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond Cancer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone seen 50/50 yet?  New York Times had a good story about it this morning and I like this quote from this story: &#8220;One of the messages was that while cancer certainly is life-changing, it doesn’t necessarily change your &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/is-it-real-or-is-it-hollywood/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1409&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemo and your Heart</title>
		<link>http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/chemo-and-your-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both of these articles are from Harvard, one is about the effects of chemo on the heart and the other is how to protect your heart. &#8220;Cancer can be tough on the heart in more ways than one&#8221; &#8220;Protecting the &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/chemo-and-your-heart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1404&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oncology Follow-Up Visits</title>
		<link>http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/oncology-follow-up-visits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 20:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aklaura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oncology visits are a mixed blessing aren&#8217;t they? This last week I had my follow-up visit with my Oncologist whom I was supposed to see every 3 months, but because I&#8217;ve moved out-of-state from where I had my treatments, my &#8230; <a href="http://laurasjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/oncology-follow-up-visits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=laurasjourney.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1951632&amp;post=1387&amp;subd=laurasjourney&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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