Bethany Meissner
@Bethanylcm
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I love adoptable pets, social justice, and community building. I'm fighting stage iv metastatic cancer and believe love, hope, and science lead to miracles.
Silver Spring, MD
Joined April 2009
The @USNavy should release footage of this and other incidents to show the world the irresponsibility and lack of professionalism from the PLA Navy, and to demonstrate U.S. resolve to nevertheless operate wherever international law allows.
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“...this policy change is gross affront to America’s sickest Medicare patients living w/ diseases like inflammatory arthritis & cancer – who depend on timely access to safe, affordable & high-quality treatments” says @ACRheum President David Daikh
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"As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate." E.B. White died on this day in 1985 and left us this extraordinary letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity:
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Dr. James Allison and Dr. Tasuku Honjo’s immunotherapy discovery uses our own body’s defenses to destroy cancer. Today’s @NobelPrize award is a significant leap toward ending cancer as we know it and paving the path to a cure. Congratulations and thank you.
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Calling all UX + creative designers - come work with our small but mighty team @GlobalGiving to make the world a little bit better every day.
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The application period for our 2018 Professional Development Micro-Grant is open TODAY! This program offers #cancer patients & survivors financial assistance to acquire or advance job-related skills. For more info & to apply by 11/11: https://t.co/KNbt05myWU
#bethebossovercancer
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I extra love this because sunflowers are often a symbol of the fight to survive sarcomas. Today my #StageIV sarcoma cancer is making breathing difficult so I need physical strength to breathe and spiritual stremgth to hope for a clinical trial to find a cure. #CancerLife
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DEADLINE TODAY: We’re on the look out for poems of all styles—rhyming, free verse, haiku, and more—for the 13th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards! Enter any poem 32 lines or less for your chance to win $1,000 in cash: https://t.co/K1UTebb0Vr
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Call for submissions: @ShadeMountainPr is seeking literary fiction, either novels or short story collections, ONLY by D/deaf and/or disabled women. Deadline November 30, 2018 with projected publication date of May 2020. #LitMagMonday #amwriting
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Seriously, it sounds shallow but looking like a normal cute thirtysomething rather than just a super ill patient makes chemo days suck a little less. #stageiv #CancerLife #CancerFierce
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Nothing like your pulmonologist saying "nope, that's not psychosomatic. That's a real thing that has been proven to help."
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Plus, it's the perfect color for severely underfunded and often deadly gynecologic cancers whose symptoms most women don't know and need an awareness campaign https://t.co/DwztVPx1ru
#BelowTheBeltCancer
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Hey @TorridFashion thanks for making a top that both makes me feel good about how I look, but also allows my nurse to access my port https://t.co/aBR186lqie
#StageIV #BelowTheBeltCancer
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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel would have been 90 today. His timely Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:
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Dear boys and men: You shouldn’t have to correlate girls and women with your daughters, wives and mothers in order to care for and about them. Instead of “I have daughters, so this matters to me,” try: Girls and women matter, no matter what.
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Totally random but does anyone need a table? https://t.co/p79XD4F0X2 We're open to offers :)
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I feel like @jarrodjabre and I need these :)
Join the #LegendsofTomorrow, be a real life superhero and support Michelle Obama’s @WhenWeAllVote initiative with this limited edition tee! Shop by going to https://t.co/q2X3IhEI4P
#whenweallvote #votingismysuperpower
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She wrote a book about it. So, that's the research sorted. https://t.co/pBYhuYCe2C
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