Keri Smith is a Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor living in Upstate New York.  She was diagnosed at 37 with hormone positive breast cancer and is living with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer (MBC).  In this episode, Keri reads her essay “Showing Up” from Wildfire Magazine’s 2024 “Work & Career” issue.  Keri’s piece is about simultaneously receiving a long deserved promotion and a cancer diagnosis all at the same time.  April and Keri will discuss navigating mixed emotions of celebration and devastation, the ways cancer is a thief, scheduling time to talk about cancer and using writing to process through cancer.  This episode contains explicit language.

More about Keri:  https://www.instagram.com/keris113/

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If you liked this episode, you might like “A Guest Room with MBC” with Erin Weiss:

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/82d235ba-6267-410c-ab29-c0abbc9bde27/

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