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When those words are told to you, that you are those words, after going through something that you truly had no choice, that every other person who is diagnosed is also forced to go through, all because the alternative is death.   Well, sometimes those words just sit there.   Difficult, sometimes impossible to digest. 

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One of the biggest concerns I had upon diagnosis was how this was going to affect my family and friends.  One of the biggest reasons why women I’ve talked to do NOT tell their families or kids that they have cancer is that they don’t want their lives to be affected or changed.

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When it comes to those with cancer diagnosis – there is a definite normal before knowing you had cancer and a normal after knowing you had cancer.  Your world, and those in it, are forever changed.   How you think about yourself, how you think about others.  How others treat you.  How the world appears.  How you react to what life brings.   Your perspective, your goals.  Life is not the same, and your normal is not the same. 

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Artists are constantly grappled with concepts, story lines, content.  So when something happens to an artist, that stops them in their tracks, makes them take a double take on their own existence, and then the existence of everything they know…their art is never quite the same.

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When people are told that they beat cancer, and are cheered on by so many others that they are warriors and survivors, there’s that little voice in the back of our heads that sits there, and constantly comes to the forefront and brings forth a bit of fear.  Here’s a few of our artists, sharing their answers to the questions – do you ever have a fear of it returning?

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When you’re done with treatment, whether you’re told or not told that you’re cancer free, your follow-up will be very specific to you and your cancer.   For the most part it may be once a month soon afterwards, and then turn into every three months, and then every six months, and if you’re lucky once a year and if you’ve gotten the golden ticket – never again!

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If you’re told that YOU’RE CANCER FREE, do you actually believe it?  Do you believe that you are FREE of this horrible, sneaky, scary, disease?  And if you are ‘free’ of it, are ever really free?

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Treatment for cancer, even if it’s the same type of cancer, varies far and wide.  Not only because of the uniqueness of all of our bodies, cancer, diagnosis but hospitals, doctors, location.  I mean, treatment and how they do things in New York are vastly different than how things are done in Illinois, Florida, Iowa.  To add on top of that… ‘the show must go on.’

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There’s many different reasons why you choose your doctors.  Sometimes it’s because of your insurance.  Sometimes it’s because of their location.  Sometimes it’s a gut feeling.  And sometimes personalities just don’t match.  In the end, it’s your body and your choice. 

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Unfortunately, some people are forced to learn at a young age the consequences of having or not having insurance.  No matter what insurance coverage you have, it’s a near full-time job navigating co-pays, out-of-pocket, in-network, referrals, approvals, and more.  Hell, it has its own language.  So not only do you need to learn Cancer language, but you have to add Insurance to your homework.

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It’s always a tad uncomfortable when you have to ask for help, especially when you look normal on the outside, but treatment is going to make you very not normal.  But what happens when you really need the most help and it’s not there – like when you’re done with treatment and are in the deepest depression you’ve ever experienced.  Or when your cancer becomes more like a chronic disease and there is no end to the help that’s needed.

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It’s one thing to tell your family and loved ones that you have cancer, but then there are others.  For some women, they choose a point person or persons to spread the news, for others it’s a group text or email, for some they, like myself, post on social media, and for a few they just go ahead and create their own youtube channel.  There’s no right or wrong way to tell your story.
 
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Just as there’s no right or wrong way to react to be being told you have cancer, there’s really no right or wrong way to tell your family, friends and loved ones that you have cancer.

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There’s never a good moment to be told that you have cancer.  And there’s no right and wrong way to react to being told you have cancer.  In a moment’s notice, your life and world are turned upside down, and then you’re forced into stopping whatever you’re doing to dive into treatment.
 
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It’s known among artists, specifically theater, to plow through the rehearsals, tech rehearsals and performances despite any health mishap.  There’s something to be said of the stigma in the industry about being ‘sick.’   So what happens when you’re in the middle of a gig, or career path, and you have a cancer diagnosis?
 
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I interviewed 11 women in the arts who went thru and are going through cancer treatment.  They range from theatre educators, screenwriters, playwrights, actors, musicians, visual artists, marketing, stage managers and stagehands.  And we didn’t stick to breast cancer.  We heard from colon rectal, ovarian, lung, thyroid, lymphoma, melanoma, and the rare Desmoid Fibromatosis. Cancer affects so many people in so many different ways. So here’s the women of the Artist Series, and how they found out they had cancer.

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