The Many Faces of Cancer
As a cancer survivor and thriver, I know how important community and support are when you are facing a cancer diagnosis. That’s why I created The Many Faces of Cancer Podcast.
Each week I will be interviewing amazing people with heartfelt and inspirational stories from all sides of the cancer journey: patients, survivors and thrivers, caregivers, family and friends, and professionals. I may even throw in a bonus episode once in a while talking about things that are important to us all.
We never think it will happen to us, until it does. This podcast will be about community, knowing you’re not alone in your journey. It will also be an opportunity for people to share their stories and hopefully help others.
I hope you will all tune in. While it will be cancer stories, we all learn from others and, ultimately, these are human stories, applicable to many other areas of life.
The Many Faces of Cancer
The Benefits of Journaling amid Brain Cancer with Katie Smith
Today's guest is Katie Smith, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2012. Over 12 years later, she's thriving in life after beating the odds!!
Katie began writing a blog to keep her friends and family updated on her treatments and progress. She continued that blog for 4 years, even after treatment was finished. That blog eventually turned into her book "Welcome to Katie's Brain: A Brain Cancer Survivor's Story" (https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Katies-Brain-Cancer-Survivors/dp/1977267106/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=)
Looking back today, she is so grateful to have taken the time to write everything down as it was happening. Her children, who were 1 and 6 when she was diagnosed, grew up in this blog and they can read about things they were too young to remember.
Katie still faces some challenges (brain cancer always leaves its mark), and she is living a full life with her husband and now teenage children, being the survivor so many diagnosed with brain cancer turn to for hope.
You can find Katie on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/katiekaisersmith/
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