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Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
May 15, 2017
Let's get real about Mother's Day
As I headed out the door for a Mother's Day run, I breathed a grateful sigh listening to the first few lines of a StoryCorps podcast.


Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
May 8, 2016
The fortitude(s) of motherhood
The thing that scared me most when I first learned I had cancer had nothing to do with the medical ordeal that loomed ahead. I knew I...


Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Oct 7, 2015
Up, down, up and onward
After some big sighs of relief that I seemed to be weathering my third chemo infusion better than my first two, last week turned on me...


Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 25, 2015
Getting a hang of this chemo thing
I was dreading my third round of chemo. Round three hit a friend of mine harder than any other.


Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 15, 2015
So long, hair
It started falling out in the faintest of wisps — a few hairs at a time, the day after my second chemo treatment. Then this morning, most...


Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 4, 2015
So far, so good ... and a new 'do!
One week and one day after round one of chemo, I'm feeling remarkably healthy — gratefully so and with a short new 'do I'm calling my...
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