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Katherine Davis, Author
kd@katherinedavisauthor.com
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davikath8
Jan 272 min read
PTSD and Me: Wounds into Wings, into Weapons
I didn’t have a PTSD episode while awaiting my colonoscopy to annoy my gastroenterologist, but annoyed he was. He is a busy, important...
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davikath8
Oct 31, 20242 min read
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: A Cancer Survivor's PTSD
A survivor of multiple cancers reflects on her relationship with panic, how PTSD has shaped her life and her character.
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davikath8
Aug 29, 20243 min read
Clothes Are Not Cancer Treatment: On Learning To Be Vulnerable
A survivor of cancer and childhood abuse learns she is not entirely free of her troubled past
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davikath8
Jun 3, 20242 min read
No Time for Terror: Observations from Provincial Cancer Land
A Canadian cancer patient shares observations from the front lines of an overtaxed and underfunded system
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davikath8
Apr 21, 20242 min read
Beautiful and Brutal: My Bilateral Mastectomy
One Woman Finds Trauma in Unexpected Places in Getting a Bilateral Mastectomy
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davikath8
Feb 6, 20242 min read
Having Cancer Again: The Real Work of Love
Looking back, it seems obvious that what happened to me that summer was traumatic. I was a fifteen-year-old receiving chemo for Hodgkin’s...
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davikath8
Dec 8, 20232 min read
Far From Fifteen: Cancer at Age 53
Dread and terror are best dispersed by mundane reality. At the age of 15, as I made the final steps into my isolation room for a bone...
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davikath8
Nov 5, 20232 min read
My Unorthodox Cancer Dream Team
Trauma prepares one for trauma. I have a deep and developed knowledge of suffering. I know what it is and how I want to handle it. I know...
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davikath8
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Breast Cancer: Health, A Far Horizon
Every journey is easier once begun. So I think to myself and say to myself as I cross another threshold in the architecture of oncology....
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