AliveAndKickn Podcast - Margaret Hitchcock

I sit down with Margaret Hitchcock, virologist, Lynch Syndrome patient, and Vice President of the California Colorectal Cancer Coalition.  Melanoma and Triple Negative Breast Cancer survivor and we discuss celebrating cancerversaries and what it's like to be a survivor, knowing there's a distinct possibility, if not likelihood, there will be at least once reoccurrence.   Margaret talks about her extensive family history of cancer, and not your typical ones.  Since 2006, Margaret's C4 group distributes community grants for screening for colorectal cancer.  Margaret talks about how her dog seemed to diagnose her cancer, was involved with her respiratory management post surgery.  We also talk Covid and vaccines, as it was originally recorded at the end of 2021.  The public health message has been a problem, and the mistrust is unfortunate.  We also talk about the cost/benefit relationship in healthcare and our approaches to managing a chronic situation.