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[MEDIA] Discussing being a ‘good enough’ cancer patient with @iamwillonline

I was pleased to be invited to join Will Taylor’s ‘Good Enough’ podcast, off the back of social media content talking about the problematic nature of talking about ‘cancer’ and ‘fighting’.We spoke before Christmas, and this week it has gone live.

Will introduces me in the podcast:

The idea of Keep Calm and Carry On has now taken on a different focus in Bex’s life as she is now living with Metastatic cancer which brings with it a reduced life expectancy. 

In today’s conversation Bex generously discusses her experience with what it means to keep calm and carry on, her honestly around language used for people with cancer as well as end of life preparation.

Like many things in life, and cancer is no exception, we can safely say that when you have met one person with cancer, you have simply only ever met one person with cancer. Everyone’s experience and relationship to their illness is uniquely their own. 

This though is Bex’s wonderfully human, vulnerable and ultimately life affirming story and in it  we discovered a conversation about being good enough to live.

You can listen to the 53 minute podcast here, with discussion about cancer starting around 11 minutes in.

 

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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