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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Very hard for you because you have to walk the line of putting your own needs against the needs of so many people who count on you to be there. It’s a huge moral dilemma and I don’t envy you the struggle. Hugs ❤️

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Said everyone with chemo-induced hair loss…

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My girl is five years down the road and new effects popping up. The struggle is real.

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Rotten Ovaries @ovariesrotten.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I can partially get why muggles don't understand that carcinomies have to deal with late effects from treatment and fear of recurrence. I just cannot understand how there are still medical professionals who just don't understand this. #Cancer #LateEffects #CanSky #ThanksCancer

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Never quite thought about it this way before but now I do #cansky #CancerBS

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Independence…friends…career aspirations…hopes and dreams…traditions…celebrations…innocence.

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ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Cancer is a full time job. #cansky

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Walked out of my girl’s last appointment after a year of treatment including chemo, three surgeries, egg harvesting and radiation and got this. Anyone else with a cancer tattoo? #cansky #CancerBS

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ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So much of what I did during cancer treatment was trying to make the muggles in my life more comfortable. Let the cancer muggles be uncomfortable. #cansky

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ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Dear Cancer Muggles, Getting cancer is the only way to know what you would do if you got cancer. Benignly, ThanksCancer #cansky #cancerBS

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My girl had to move. Same roads. Same grocery store. Same everything.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 05/12/2024

Health insurance is wild. You pay every month for months, years, decades, in case something catastrophic happens. Then it does and the insurers are like yeah no not THAT kind of catastrophe.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I call it living a life adapted. Most people in the cancer world grieve who they were in the Before especially if they lived a life without any limitations. There’s nothing normal about what you’ve experienced. No matter how you feel in a day often the whisper “hey…remember you had cancer” ends it.

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breastcancerchatww.bsky.social @breastcancerchatww.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Bone health screening. No gatekeeping by age alone. Alongside all post menopausal women, anyone (of any age) taking treatments/meds &/or having surgical interventions that risk their bone health.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My girl is going for a molar extraction this week. Didn’t have a cavity in her mouth for 27 years until chemo. Dental cost should be a medical thing post chemo and radiation.

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ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#Cansky introduction thread: Tell me: 👉 Who you are (patient, survivor, caregiver, med professional, etc) 👉 The best ice cream flavor 👉 Something you are proud of in the past year (pics welcome!) 👇👇👇

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Mom of a daughter diagnosed at 27 with breast cancer. Just hit the 5 yr NED but still on drugs. Best ice cream is Blue Buried Treasure (it’s an Ontario thing). I’m proud this year that I dropped the 25 lbs of stress weight I gained since March 15th 2019 at 8:30 am when I first heard Mom…it’s cancer.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

And in really tiny dishes so you only have to eat a little to have the mental satisfaction of staring at them empty.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Internal dialogue was definitely a little socially inappropriate 😜

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Five years ago today a surgeon sat across the desk and opened a file. I remember sitting there looking at him hoping that all she had endured had paid off and the beast in her breast and lymph nodes was dead. When he said it was…I still can’t even. Happy US Thanksgiving. #cansky #Cancerbs

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Life in survivorship lessons…When you’re sitting around the dinner table telling what you think is a funny story about your experience and you realize from the looks on everyone’s faces that is was actually pretty traumatic. #cansky #CancerBS

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ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

When you “tell your cancer story,” you cohere the incoherent mess of what happened to you. #cansky #oncosky #oncsky

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Well you’ve already been irradiated sooooooo

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Think maybe you dodged a bullet there maybe?

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

She is because we are so lucky the treatment matched her cancer.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Too many times my daughter was challenged about her treatment choices. Too many times…when she just wanted to live. And she did. #cansky #CancerBS

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

And we change the journey by thinking outside the sad…outside the despair…and we learn that laughing is possible even when it seems it can’t be. You are a champion of the art!!

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Did you ex boyfriend become an ex because your boob was trying to kill you?

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Heidi & Mand @laughbeforedeath.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Mand is a bit of a #CancerDinosaur! She is 9+years on from her #MetastaticBreastCancer diagnosis. I love hearing of people living well with #metastaticCancer. If any of you out there consider yourself a dinosaur too, please share or comment! @thankscancer.bsky.social #cansky #oncsky

Photo of Mand, taken about a month before her cancer diagnosis. It is notable that she has long hair which she cut off soon after.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Being a mother and grandmother I get to feel this allllll the time. Nothing like it.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I watched my girl go through all of this following treatment in 2019. I bet your hair will never be “just” your hair ever again. It certainly isn’t for her.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Before my girl was diagnosed at 27 I thought you walked away clean or you died, and most died. I have learned so much since March 15 2019. It takes going through it I think.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The after was a remarkable thing. My girl and I drove home after the last bag finished and were like…meh. I was expecting the cartwheel and pompoms feel and felt…nothing. It was so discombobulating.

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Debbie Legault @debbie-legault.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What a shit response. How do you not lose your mind the next three months?

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ThanksCancer @thankscancer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Dear cancer muggles, Why must you tell me about everyone you’ve ever known who has died of cancer? How could that possibly make me feel better? Benignly, ThanksCancer #cansky #cancerBS

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