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debsmith14.bsky.social
Art, birds, books, dark chocolate, and the beach give me joy and sanity. Living with EGFR/T790 stage 4 lung cancer since 2011!
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📢 Help us understand the emotional toll of #lungcancer. With @lungcancereurope.bsky.social & 46 orgs, we’re surveying patients & caregivers across Europe to explore the mental health impact of a diagnosis. 🧠 Your voice can shape better support. 🔗 surveymonkey.com/r/LuCESurvey20… #LCSM

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🎉 Big news! The Free to Breathe Walk is THIS Fall! Join us as a member of our second family to raise hope for a world without lung cancer. 🦋 Register today: LCRF.org/Walk #LungCancer #LungCancerAwareness #FreeToBreatheWalk

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Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno

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I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

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Do you assume a person had to have known they had metastatic cancer before they were diagnosed? Here are four reasons why they often don't know.

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Led by @narjustflorezmd.bsky.social‬, @danafarber.bsky.social’s EQUAL study uses a novel blood test to identify high-risk non-smokers for early lung cancer screening and intervention. Read more: bit.ly/3Z5Kib1

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I'm holding a flash sale this w/e-you can bag 15% off my June botanical or bird illustration & mental health w'shops w. the code LEAFYFLASH15. Learn how creative activity & contact with nature gives us resilience to stress & trauma Plus learn how to draw twigs or wrens ✒️🌿🪶 workshops.emmamitchell.uk

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If you'd like to learn how collecting & arranging finds to make small tabletop museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health, watch me make one of my photos & learn to make beautiful arrangements, there are still 2 spaces left on my w'shop tmrw: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

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👏👏👏✊ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHW...

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PLEASE SHARE. Times are bleak and this is URGENT. If you are medical in any way (provide care, do medical research, etc) please join us in signing this open letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Has someone you love just been given a #LungCancer diagnosis? As a caregiver, you need support and we're here for you. LCRF.org/resources

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Though it is worrisome that so far this year around 2.7 million cases of Covid have been reported in the US, it’s worth acknowledging that these numbers aren’t as bad as previous years, yes, these numbers don’t look nearly as bad and all we had to do was stop counting.

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Music is joy! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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I had such a great time talking with Andy about satire (and hats!). Check it out-->

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My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections. I design my photos using recent research so that they dial down your fight or flight/stress response just by looking at them: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

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This evening at 8 UK time I'll be opening my Etsy shop for limited ed’n signed art prints of my botanical/nature collection photographs & frameable greetings cards. I create my photos using recent research to dial down fight or flight & lift your mood a little when you look at them.

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Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 34 days ago • 18 comments

I am so angry & upset about this. I worked with the ATF to create this memorial wall. Jaime, and some others from Parkland, were on this memorial wall. Where is Jaime's picture now? In the trash? If you are someone who voted for Trump, you voted for this. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Listen to Thejus Jayakrishnan, MD, of @danafarber.bsky.social's Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center on the podcast “The Patient from Hell” discussing environmental factors, screening strategies and the rising rate of #ColorectalCancer in patients younger than 50. bit.ly/3YUelSN

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BREAKING: this is the big one! We @sddaction.bsky.social are proud to be part of a coalition of labor orgs, non-profits, & cities & counties suing to challenge the Trump admin’s reorganization of the entire federal gov. It's against the law! statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/massive...

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