Absolutely Sweet Marie
By Jamie DePolo on October 10th, 2016 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyI wore red cowboy boots and a Pabst Blue Ribbon bowling shirt to my friend Marie’s memorial service. Another friend wore a thrift store skirt with cat faces printed all over it. Another wore a Twangfest music festival t-shirt.
It was fitting, not flip. Marie had given me the PBR shirt. At one point we had bonded over our hatred of beers “with too much …
Metastatic Breast Cancer: How Holley Kitchen Changed the Game
By Claire Nixon on January 27th, 2016 Categories: The Breast Cancer JourneyHolley Kitchen seemed to arrive out of nowhere. She was 42 and living in Cedar Park, Texas, with her husband and two boys, and she’d been living with metastatic breast cancer since 2013. In the spring of 2015, Holley posted a homemade video on Facebook. In the video, she used a series of note cards and poignant, even humorous facial expressions to explain what it’s …
Jesse Case on Community: “We Have Each Other. It’s Okay.”
By Claire Nixon on December 17th, 2015 Categories: Community KnowledgeThis month, we’re wrapping up our three-part series with 29-year-old standup comic Jesse Case. In part one and part two, we get into his diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer earlier this year, his connection to Breastcancer.org, and what it’s like to go out and do standup comedy between treatments. He podcasts each week at Jesse vs. Cancer, an hour-long show that’s funny, …
Comedy and Cancer With Jesse Case: The Laughs Are Real
By Claire Nixon on November 19th, 2015 Categories: Community Knowledge 29-year-old comedian Jesse Case and his family connected to Breastcancer.org three years ago when his aunt was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Last month, we brought you part one of this interview.
“I have no idea why I’m wearing a lei,” Jesse writes from his parents’ house in Nashville. He’s sending what photos he can find. Most pictures of Jesse performing standup are back in …
Comedian Jesse Case Podcasts Through Metastatic Cancer
By Claire Nixon on October 22nd, 2015 Categories: Community KnowledgeJesse Case was living in Los Angeles, performing nightly standup shows, and co-hosting the comedy podcast Probably Science when his aunt was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. He and his family became frequent visitors to Breastcancer.org as she was going through treatment, sharing information and spending time in the stage IV Discussion Board forums.
At the same time, Jesse was going through his own health …
