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		<title>Angelina&#8217;s Medical Choice, A Survivor&#8217;s Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 00:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click the above audio to listen to my thoughts on Angelina Jolie&#8217;s &#8220;My Medical Choice&#8221; op-ed. Even though she totally stole my thunder, I respect what she did. Filed under: Podcasts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1551&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sticky Honey Skin or&#8230;. Party?</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/05/12/sticky-honey-skin-or-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 17:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a mere six weeks before our wedding, I’m doing something that I never see recommended by wedding blog checklists: Partying. A few people in my life have asked me “What can I do? I feel like I’m not doing &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/05/12/sticky-honey-skin-or-party/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1537&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Not Ready For This Jelly</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/04/25/you-are-not-ready-for-this-jelly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After going through this, I believe you have to be a particularly crazy and hard-assed individual to get a boob job. Reconstruction was not as painful as the mastectomy, but I was again set back to not being able to &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/04/25/you-are-not-ready-for-this-jelly/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1507&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows and Luck</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/02/07/shadows-and-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few people have told me that they wish they could take my place, and that is a very sweet and earnest sentiment. That said, of all the people I know, of all the people I respect and love, there &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/02/07/shadows-and-luck/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1497&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Don&#8217;t Have Anything Nice to Say&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/02/03/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making the details of my life public is a risk, one I take knowing that strangers are going to know things about me that I forget I’ve written. Knowing that my family will see that I’m not very wholesome sometimes. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/02/03/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1471&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncomfortable</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/31/uncomfortable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When doctors and nurses tell you that something will be “uncomfortable,” they mean that it’s really going to hurt. When they tell you it’s going to be “pretty uncomfortable,” they’re explaining graphic, bloody, searing pain, the likes of which you &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/31/uncomfortable/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1464&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But you don&#8217;t look sick!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/30/but-you-dont-look-sick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cassiecares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before January 2, 2013, I used to think that cancer looked like a bald Make-A-Wish child in princess pajamas, tired after chemo, but ecstatic to soon be meeting Cinderella at Disney World. Or I pictured some middle-aged woman weeping over &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/30/but-you-dont-look-sick/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1451&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IS BAD FOR YOU</title>
		<link>http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/28/absolutely-everything-is-bad-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cassiecares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several people have asked me what caused the enormous tumor I developed, and the answer is absolutely everything in the world. Yes, I know I said that Web-MD is a bad, bad thing, but it’s also pretty informative when you &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/28/absolutely-everything-is-bad-for-you/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1439&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, The Stupid Rigmarole</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cassiecares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ahold of an actual doctor is as difficult as getting Jesus to respond to a text message. It’s like trying to get ahold of someone at the VA. No, it’s like ripping out all of your fingernails and making &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/25/oh-the-stupid-rigmarole/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1433&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small Victories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man have I been through some shit. I will never, ever joke about feeling old again. Today is the first day that I was able to get out of bed without half an hour of careful planning, and I’m noticing &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cassiecares.com/2013/01/24/small-victories/">Continue&#160;reading&#160;<span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cassiecares.com&#038;blog=11856160&#038;post=1421&#038;subd=cassiecares&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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