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"Hey guys, I&amp;#x27;m back from FLA but handing over the reigns to someone new today. She&amp;#x27;s a super cool guest blogger (with a super cool name) who&amp;#x27;s working on a super cool project. Meet Zpora! Also I&amp;#x27;d love to discuss the topic she raises so regardless of whether you can participate, please share your thoughts here! Hello! I&amp;#x27;m Zpora. Erin has been generous enough to let me use this blog as a recruitment tool. No weird cults or kool-aid, I promise. I started reading Life with Cancer in June of 2006 when I started chemo for Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. I just finished up and got off the sauce this past August and I&amp;#x27;m feeling incredibly lucky and enjoying building my strength back up. I&amp;#x27;m back to running and yoga-ing and having enough energy to laugh, stay up past 9, and do normal late-20-something things (I sort of miss having the chemo excuse for not going to parties I don&amp;#x27;t want to though...) Anyway, I&amp;#x27;m in graduate school getting my Master&amp;#x27;s in Social Work and I have to write a thesis.... At first I thought I didn&amp;#x27;t want to write about cancer since I was finally getting to not have to think about it every day. But after a summer of going back and forth, I&amp;#x27;m back to cancer because I&amp;#x27;m realizing it will always be a part of who I am and it means a lot to me. My project is on the transition from active treatment for cancer to full-time survivor, and I&amp;#x27;m focusing on young adults (ages 18-35). I chose this subject for selfish reasons, obviously, since it&amp;#x27;s what I&amp;#x27;m going through now, but also because I think it&amp;#x27;s an interesting time and there are a lot of mixed feelings. My oncologist warned me about it before I finished chemo, and she was right&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;#x27;m overjoyed to be done, and it&amp;#x27;s also weird to not be followed closely by doctors, to not have any number of family or friends ready to make me grilled cheese if I ask, and to figure out how I want to incorporate being a cancer survivor into my identity. So I want to hear your stories! If you fit into the age range and are within two years of having finished cancer treatment and are willing to participate, get in touch with me at: zperry@email.smith.edu. Participating would involve about an hour-long interview, which would probably be over the phone, unless you&amp;#x27;re within a couple hours of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It would all be completely confidential. If that feels like too much of a commitment, but you have something to say, leave a comment and I&amp;#x27;ll be very happy to read it and hear what this transition time has been like for you. Thank you all! &amp;amp;#8212;Zpora"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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