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Day 29 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Heat Dziczek Sharing the Meaning of a Fifth Card in the Cancer.Com Deck
Heath (Heather) Dziczek's Cancer Cards are simply genius. A cancer survivor herself (Lymphoma), she had many awkward conversations with...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 291 min read
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Day 28 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Terri and her Hubby, Bill, discussing, "How Did We Do It? How to Hold and Lift Each Other Despite the Madness
So, the honest answer is...there is no neat or fancy formula. It was a bunch of combined things that helped us balance our lives as best...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 285 min read
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Day 27 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month chats with Second Year Med Student, Marissa Dregen-Tretheway!
It's always a profound morning for my husband, Bill, and me when we're invited by Dr. Aziza Shad to share our story at Grand Rounds at...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 272 min read
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Day 24 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - It's the Little Things!
I have less than a week to round out Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Most days, I have something scheduled, except for today and...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 243 min read
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Day 18 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Terri's Sister/Aunt/Support, Kimberly Kocan
Siblings are often your first friends, and perhaps, if things go awry in our lives, they become our supporters to help us through...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 182 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 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 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 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 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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Day 16 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Yes, we missed a lot from Ryan's first and second cancer diagnoses, but we also gained so much. When Ryan's counts crept up and over 1000...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 16, 20241 min read
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Day 13 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Working with multiple platforms in the last couple of weeks to get my audiobook out to the world has given me pause (and thankful, no...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 13, 20241 min read
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Day 12 of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
For many who read my blog (and I Thank You!), you know how much the organization Special Love, Inc. means to all of us. We found our...

Terri Tomoff
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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