Archive for survivorship Category

From Scared to Purpose by Jackie Poper

April 1, 2011 cancer, inspiration, media coverage, survivorship

Jackie Poper, a cancer surviver herself, has created a site called From Scared to Purpose (http://www.fromscaredtopurpose.com) in which she created podcast interviews with 14 other cancer survivors (including yours truly). Her mission is, in her words,
“To help survivors see that with the right point of focus, their cancer experience can enrich them and provide a depth and [...]

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Tiffany Taylor’s Amazon Review

November 11, 2010 athletics, book, review, survivorship

Tiffany Janes Taylor was doing some research and came across my book. After she read it she reached out to me and posted a wonderful review of it on Amazon. Here is what she said:
I stumbled on Jothy Rosenberg’s book, Who Says I Can’t, while doing my own research on Osteosarcoma. I am an 11 [...]

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Justin.tv webinar appearance

July 9, 2010 cancer, disability, fighting back, inspiration, media coverage, recovery, self-confidence, self-esteem, survivorship

Jothy Rosenberg, author of, “Who Says I Can’t” talks about fighting back, surviving and thriving against long odds in this recorded webinar for Wellsphere
Sponsor: Wellsphere @ http://www.wellsphere.com
Video production: Justin.tv @ http://www.justin.tv
Click on the image to the left to view the video:

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KGO Radio live – The Joanie Greggains show

May 30, 2010 alcatraz, lungs, media coverage, osteosarcoma, sports, survivorship, swimming

Joanie Greggains has the most popular live Health and Fitness radio show in the Bay Area. In honor of my coming out there for my 17th Alcatraz Sharkfest swim, Joanie had me on her show on May 29th. On a land line talking to her from Maine where I was for Memorial Day weekend, Joanie [...]

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LIVESTRONG blog: Young Adult Survivor week

April 11, 2010 athletics, cancer, disability, laf, lance armstrong, livestrong, media coverage, survivorship

“You have zero chance of survival.” That is what my nineteen-year-old brain heard as my doctor told me that the cancer that took my right leg three years previously had now spread to my lung, two-fifths of which had also just been removed. What he probably said was, “No one has ever survived once [...]

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Gone international: The Sunday Indian Magazine

March 30, 2010 cancer, disability, media coverage, survivorship

Anu Gulmohar, writer for The Sunday Indian Magazine and blogger at http://anugulmohar.wordpress.com/ wrote this piece which was published on March 28 in India.
Here is the piece as viewed on Scribd:
Jothy Rosenberg

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An Oprah appearance would get the word out

November 26, 2009 cancer, disability, oprah, survivorship

Everyone knows how powerful the Oprah Winfrey show is for getting someone or something high visibility. The show averages about 8.5 million viewers per airing. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. And it is currently the longest-running daytime television talk show in the US, having run nationally since 1986, for over [...]

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Jonathan Alter’s blurb for Who Says I Can’t

November 8, 2009 cancer, Jonathan Alter, PMC, survivorship

Jonathan Alter is a senior editor and columnist at “Newsweek” and a contributing correspondent for NBC News. He’s also an author whose most recent book about FDR’s early days in the White House is called “The Defining Moment.”

Jonathan is also a cancer survivor which he wrote about in the cover story for Newsweek in April [...]

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