On Tuesday, former Lapd sergeant and Los Angeles attorney Christy O'Donnell went to her doctor's office for chemotherapy, as she has every three weeks for the last several months. The first few times she went were "excruciating," says O'Donnell, 46, who has terminal lung cancer that has spread to her brain. "I got violently nauseous," she tells People in an exclusive new interview. "I could barely eat or barely walk. The nausea was 10 times worse than anything with morning sickness." And, because the veins in her arms had started to collapse from all the poking around, she'd get a "baseball-sized" lump...
- 3/11/2015
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
On Tuesday, former Lapd sergeant and Los Angeles attorney Christy O'Donnell went to her doctor's office for chemotherapy, as she has every three weeks for the last several months. The first few times she went were "excruciating," says O'Donnell, 46, who has terminal lung cancer that has spread to her brain. "I got violently nauseous," she tells People in an exclusive new interview. "I could barely eat or barely walk. The nausea was 10 times worse than anything with morning sickness." And, because the veins in her arms had started to collapse from all the poking around, she'd get a "baseball-sized" lump,...
- 3/11/2015
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Six years ago, John La Grange watched as Linda, his beloved wife of 38 years, succumbed to a slow, painful death from ovarian cancer at the age of 60. He's never forgotten her agony, or his anguish over not being able to do anything about it. So when La Grange, 66, of Solana Beach, California, was listening to the radio in his car several weeks ago and the topic of Brittany Maynard was brought up on a call-in show, it stopped him in his tracks. Maynard, a 29-year-old woman who was terminally ill with brain cancer, captured the world's attention earlier this fall...
- 11/28/2014
- by Caitlin Keating, @caitkeating
- PEOPLE.com
On what would have been Brittany Maynard's 30th birthday, her supporters have released a new video with her issuing a "call to action" for getting Death with Dignity laws passed nationwide. "I hope for the sake of other American citizens all these people that I'm speaking to that I've never met, that I'll never meet, that this choice be extended to you," Maynard says in the video, which was recorded Aug. 2. "That we mobilize, that we vocalize, that we start to talk about it," she said. "I decided to share my story ? because I felt like this issue of death...
- 11/19/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan,@nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
On what would have been Brittany Maynard's 30th birthday, her supporters have released a new video with her issuing a "call to action" for getting Death with Dignity laws passed nationwide. "I hope for the sake of other American citizens all these people that I'm speaking to that I've never met, that I'll never meet, that this choice be extended to you," Maynard says in the video, which was recorded Aug. 2. "That we mobilize, that we vocalize, that we start to talk about it," she said. "I decided to share my story … because I felt like this issue of death...
- 11/19/2014
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan,@nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
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