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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

And I thought I had it bad-

"Everyone knows lightning is not supposed to strike in the same place twice, let alone four times. Yet it did for Jessie Gruman, 53, the founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of Health, in Washington. She knows all too well what it’s like to be on the receiving end of bad health news: first at age 20 with a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s disease, 10 years later with cervical cancer, then five years ago with viral pericarditis (a potentially fatal infection of the heart’s lining) and just three years ago with colon cancer."

http://www.nytimes.com/20...

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