It started with a cough. It was a cough that lingered, then gradually became worse. Eventually, the cough became so bad that it required a trip to the emergency room. The next 36 hours changed a woman’s life forever.
When we get sick, we go to the doctors. We get ourselves checked out, maybe we’re giving a prescription, then we go about our merry way. To some extent, maybe we take our physicians for granted. We really don’t think about them until we need them. But doctors are human, too. And, like us, they too can fall prey to illness.
This is the story of Sanda Cohen. Sanda was a pediatrician who never smoked and never lived with a smoker. Despite that, at the age of 62 she suddenly found herself on the other side of the doctor’s desk facing a diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer. Now, Sanda is not only fighting and surviving, she’s thriving well beyond the 6 months life expectancy given to her at the outset.
Meet the inspiring Sanda Cohen.
On The Show . . .
- On this episode, Sanda and I chat about:
- Is it allergies? Is it pneumonia?
- The Thanksgiving trip to the ER that changed Sanda’s life
- Being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer without ever having never smoked a cigarette in her life or lived with a smoker
- The rapid movement after diagnosis
- Treatment options
- 18 months and counting: outliving her life expectancy of 6 months
- How cancer has changed Sanda’s life
- and more…
Helpful Cancer-Related Resources:
American Cancer Society
Cancer Care.org – Cancer resources in your community
Cancer Research Institute
National Cancer Institute
Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Global Cancer Institute
Global Oncology
International Agency for Research on Cancer
“Midlife-A-Go-Go the podcast!” is hosted by Valerie Albarda
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Music Credits:
“My Street” by Lee Rosevere Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
“Past Sadness” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
