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Miss Diagnosed: Patient 3155175

Cissy White — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:26:34 +0000

It’s ovarian cancer awareness month. I didn’t always know that, but I know it now. I have cancer. Ovarian. Advanced. I have advanced ovarian cancer. It’s hard to put those words together. It’s been two weeks and five days, and that’s only starting to feel real. What I want is to believe I’m still in […]

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Trying Not to Die of Old Age at 28

Cissy White — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:14:08 +0000

I wrote the following in 1995. I was six years into a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder from childhood. The ACE Study wasn’t yet published. It was the feel-it-to heal days of therapy which were all talk talk talk, which often made survivors like myself feel far worse. I had already survived childhood and was […]

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Survivors OWN ACEs After Oprah (Day 2)

Cissy White — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 02:16:53 +0000

30 Days of After Oprah (Series & Day 1) Day 2 / Aha 2 There’s a test for that? I had no idea that there was something called (adverse childhood experiences (ACEs for short). ACEs in childhood are like salt water on an engine during a flood – not good for the wiring. The types of […]

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Don’t Tell Us Marching Doesn’t Matter

Cissy White — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:32:14 +0000

As we arrived at the Common Beth remembered summers when we stripped the girls down to diapers at the Frog Pond. I thought of the bouncy ground at the playground where the girls chased, climbed and crawled. We were monkey bar moms spotting each other in the days when there wasn’t a minute to pee, […]

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Mama Obama & Daddy Donald: Growing Myself Up

Cissy White — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 22:39:42 +0000

“And I told them, I told them that they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. And I told them that they should disregard anyone who demeans or devalues them and that they should make their voices heard in the world.” This is the part of Michelle Obama’s speech that killed me. How do […]