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Day 16 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Bill and Dr. Aziza Shad - Late Effects
What a profound day in the Childhood Cancer Awareness realm. As usual, we left early and encountered the usual snail-paced DC traffic...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 162 min read
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Day 15 of CCAM: "I Hear You Can Cure Cancer with Carrot Juice!"
Speaker, writer, collector of stories. Always curious. Occasionally hilarious, Heat Dzizcek is the CEO at Cancer Conversation SOS - and...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 151 min read
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Day 14 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Eric Cole Sharing the Magic of Special Love and Cancer Camps!
For a businessman like Eric Cole, going to camp, that is, Special Love's Camp Fantastic, was just one of hundreds of ways this kind...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 141 min read
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Day 13 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - Exercise to Help with Stress with Hubby Bill
We are on location in Crofton, Maryland, on the Crofton Parkway, where Bill and I typically walk 4 miles a day when we can. We've been...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 132 min read
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Day 12 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Terri Going Gold, Again!
My video below explains how childhood cancer awareness is now represented by wearing a gold ribbon, a tradition that began in 1997. The...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 121 min read
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Day 11 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month & The Focused Fight on Several Platforms.
When I began writing The Focused Fight: A Childhood Cancer Memoir, from Mayhem to Miracles , in earnest during the pandemic, my goal was...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 112 min read
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Day 9 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - It's Over! NOT!
My friend, Heat (also known as Heather) Dziczek, is on fire with her CancerCards . I think her work on what not to say to people with...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 91 min read
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Day 8 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Special Love's Angela Ashman!
I had the pleasure of having a meaningful conversation this morning with SL Program Chair, Angela Ashman. She is a sibling of a cancer...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 81 min read
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Day 7 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - Stats That Matter!
We are ending the first week of Celebrating Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Stats that Matter. Here are the stats I discussed in...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 71 min read
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Day 6 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 2025
There is a lot of repurposing going on in various forms of writing, including videos, books, magazine articles, and the entire spectrum...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 62 min read
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Day 5 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - Sibling Olivia (Tomoff) Hudson
Olivia Tomoff was a four-year-old little girl when her brother Ryan was diagnosed with Leukemia. She has been the unsung heroine in our...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 51 min read
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Day 4 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Ex. Dir. of Special Love, Elena Jeannotte
Elena Jeannotte, Executive Director of Special Love, Inc ., since December 2024, shares the impact she has witnessed with the kids and...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 41 min read
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Day 3 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: It's OKAY, Not to Be OKAY - CancerCards with Heat Dziczek
Cancer Survivor, Writer, Musician, Teacher, and more, Heat Dziczek shares the first of five of her cancer cards - 'It's Okay Not to Be...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 31 min read
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Day 1 of September -Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - Welcome and Why Do I Do This?
Today starts my 5th year in Celebrating Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! I am excited to share stories, interviews, and more. I may even...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 11 min read
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More Quilts for Ethiopia's Cancer Kids in 2015!
This is a photo from my trip to Ethiopia in 2018. Except for the green bag, the suitcases and large bag were filled with quilts and toys...

Terri Tomoff
Apr 292 min read
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