Episode 35: From Broadway to stage 4 diagnosis: building a career that cancer can't cancel
I told my oncologist that treatment's going to have to wait 'cause I'm booked up. And she just looked at me with eight eyes and said, “Valerie, if you don't treat this, this is fatal."
Performer and playwright Valerie David has had cancer three times: stage 3 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, stage 2 breast cancer, and stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. During chemo and radiation, she journaled about her experiences and recorded audio diaries when writing became too exhausting. This became the catalyst for her to write The Pink Hulk: One Woman’s Journey to Find the Superhero Within, Valerie’s…
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