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The Notes of a Cancerous Girl. September 2014.
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I am not a Cancer but I have one. It came unannounced, since I had no side effects except for the nightly drenching sweats, and quietly settled inside my chest. When it grew large and comfortable, it pushed aside my heart and lungs making my body convulse in pain. And this is when it got discovered. The following notes aren’t going to be my typical travel diary but day-to- day journey through the doctor’s appointments, moods and thoughts while dealing with the disease. I used to skip news about cancer, considering it irrelevant to me since I came from a family with no cancer history and thought it would never affect me and …
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