Crowdsourcing Cancer

22
Feb
2016

Crowdsourcing Cancer (Part 2)

categories: Cancer Journey, Crowdsourcing

If you prefer listening to reading an audio version is available below the text.

Crowdsourcing came to me organically. After I was diagnosed I didn’t decide to solicit information, help and opinions from a large group of people. I just did it. Instinctively, I said and repeated, “I have cancer and I need your help” to throngs of family, friends, strangers, and acquaintances and waited for responses. (more…)

15
Feb
2016

Crowdsourcing Cancer (Part 1)

categories: Cancer Journey, Crowdsourcing

If you prefer listening to reading, an audio version is available below the text.

I don’t remember what the doctor said when she told me that I have cancer. I don’t remember the words. I do remember feeling a cold small panic that grew warmer, then larger. A panic that urged my mind and heart to race and then to stop, simultaneously then sequentially, all at once then not at all. (more…)