This is the first episode of a series we never wanted to make.
Jill Tirabassi was a physician in Buffalo, a mother of two little boys, a lifelong athlete, a gardener who was happiest with dirt on her hands, and a member of the Live From Stage IV team who said yes to this podcast before it existed. She was diagnosed with de novo metastatic breast cancer while pregnant with her second son. She died on Monday, September 7th. She was 40.
What you'll hear is our team meeting, the first one after we lost her. Nobody was ready to record. We did anyway. Lisa, Alexis, Ellen, Lynda, and Abigail talk about the Bills, Heated Rivalry, postpartum breast cancer, why the term "pregnancy-associated cancer" has to go, and what it means to keep going.
Then Abigail Johnston reads the essay she wrote for her blog, No Half Measures, the morning we recorded. It says the thing the rest of us were circling.
Read it here: https://nohalfmeasures.blog
Jill's episodes, including S**t We Deal With and the Heated Rivalry conversation, are in our feed. Her voice is still there.
Forever live from Stage IV.
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