About

I’m much less maudlin in real life.

8 Responses to About

  1. Cliff McCloe says:

    Hello. My name is Cliff McCloe. I represent http://www.thedayifoundout.com. We found your webpage through Twitter. We are currently revamping our sit to allow anyone affected by cancer to share their story through video. Here’s the nutshell version of what we’re doing.

    1) Cancer patients, survivors and loved-ones make a homemade video, telling the story about how they dealt with cancer, focusing on the day they found out they (or their loved one) had cancer.
    2) We post the videos on our site.
    3) We link the videos to the user’s webpage, blog, Facebook, Twitter and/or other cancer-related sites of your choice.
    For more details about the project, go to http://www.thedayifoundout.com/pdf/newvideos.pdf
    I read a bit of your blog (Good luck with your cottage cheese diet!) ; We’d love it if you would consider sharing your story on our site.

    Hope to hear from you soon.

    Cheers,
    Cliff McCloe
    206-226-9312
    http://www.twitter.com/thedayifoundout
    http://www.copacino.com

  2. Zenon says:

    We met over the phone a few years back. I called you looking for “CURVES snitch hot line” hopping to report my wife who indulged in a double chochalate mouse cheese cake over that weekend. You ended up giving Margaret a extended POWER workout to burn off the extra calories . Write us . Margaret wants to here from you

    PS Do you still have that bicycle , I still want to “PINP UP YOUR RIDE”

    • Alicia says:

      Alas, I’ve traded in that bike for one much faster and lighter. I remember you well! Tell Margaret she’s welcome to email me at alicia dot merchant at gmail dot com. I was thinking of her recently but couldn’t find her email address — we ran into one another last spring at the Trinity Bellwoods community centre (at least I think it was last spring!)

  3. Peter says:

    Hi there,

    Just to let you know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. I’ve been through an awful last three months but I can see some hope in my life now so I will send some of that hope to you and wish you the best in your recovery. Thank you for having the courage to share your struggles, you are a wonderful inspiration. People in our society seem to have so many “problems” and “complaints” (I’m glad you didn’t clock the SUV guy, I might have) yet we have a very poor concept of what real struggles are.

    I will keep sending you positive thoughts.

    Peter

  4. Rachael says:

    Hi

    My name is Rachael and like you I write a WordPress blog about living with an incurable cancer (I got diagnosed in March). I’ve had a look at your blog and I’d like to say I admire how open you are about your condition. A lot of cancer patients I’ve me (myself included) feel the need to act like everything is great all the time, even when it really isn’t and everything feels too too overwhelming. I admire your honesty and your courage. All the best! R x

  5. Hi – I found you through the link you posted on The New York Times story Living With Cancer. (I replied too). I want to be sure to read your blog and you can find some of my “cancer posts” on mine. So far, I am 3 years in remission from BC, but I accept (on some level) that that can change. I look forward to reading your blog. It’s a brave act to expose everything and let people in, although I found, highly therapeutic.

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