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Julie Cowdin: My life after cancer
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Bill Snead interviews Julie Cowdin on Channel 6's "River City Weekly"
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My Cancer, My Story
- Writing provides outlet for Jardon, others fighting deadly illness
- February 25, 2007
- Editor’s Note: Kathy Jardon was diagnosed with cancer March 23, 2004. After 15 months of undergoing surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments she realized that her cancer could be a big part of her life for a long time. Unlike the flu, it would not just go away. Kathy started writing this piece June 5, 2005
- Kathy’s long journey
- Despite battling cancer for more than two years with few lucky breaks, this Baldwin City mom lost neither her sense of humor nor her competitive spirit
- February 25, 2007
- Editor’s Note: Baldwin City resident Kathy Jardon fought cancer for more than two years. From conversations and her journals, Senior editor Bill Snead found that battling cancer can be a full-time job.
- Short cut to recovery
- October 15, 2006
- Debbie Meyer’s life had become an emotional yo-yo with too much downspin. Two months earlier, on a Saturday morning, Dr. Marilee McGinness had driven from Lawrence to Meyer’s home in Lenexa to personally deliver bad news. Meyer’s breast biopsy, taken the night before in McGinness’ office, was positive. She had cancer.
- Julie Cowdin shares her journey through poetry
- January 29, 2006
- Julie participated in Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s writing workshop, “Your Life is Your Life: Writing for Hope and Healing.” “I was the Edgar Allan Poe of the group,” Julie says, laughing.
- Series follows cancer survivors’ stories
- January 29, 2006
- Nearly all of us know someone whose life has been devastated by cancer. But, as most who’ve had the disease will say, it’s difficult to comprehend cancer’s toll without firsthand experience.
- Life anew at thirty-six
- Julie Cowdin battles with a cancer gene
- January 29, 2006
- It had been a long day, and Julie Cowdin was getting ready for bed. Glancing at her bathroom mirror, she thought she noticed a redness on her left breast. A closer look got her attention. She asked her husband, Tim, for a second opinion.
- A win over cancer
- Lawrence survivor shares story
- November 20, 2005
- A whole lot of Katy Beard’s character, sense of humor and outlook on life is packaged in “Talking Back,” a straightforward piece of prose she created in Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s writing workshop at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. It could also fit the outlook of those with cancer who are emotionally and physically capable of champing the bit of recovery firmly between their teeth. Cancer patients probably lead the league as targets of unsolicited, well-meaning advice.
- Surviving through her words
- Writing workshops with other patients helped sort through feelings during treatments
- November 20, 2005
- The main reason I decided to take the writing workshop was to deal with the problem of younger people dying around me while I was still here. So I thought that when writing and getting those thoughts down I could figure out why, or learn how to live with my feelings.
- Series follows cancer survivors’ treatment, recovery
- November 20, 2005
- Earlier this year, for six weeks, a dozen women and one man gathered on Wednesdays to participate in a writing workshop, “Your Life is Your Life: Writing for Hope and Healing.”
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