Three Forkfuls of Spaghetti Podcast
Living well with cancer
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The experience of living with cancer for 42 years gave Dee Pipik a grounded perspective on helping yourself, letting others help you, and helping others.
Dee found that cancer came with suffering and compassion, everyday trivialities, emotional peaks and troughs. She learned not to be defined by her illness, but to make it a part of a life well-lived, filled with family, friends, work, humor, and an irrepressible spirit. The process, she said, begins with “a small but meaningful step,” perhaps just three forkfuls of spaghetti.
The goal of these short and heartfelt podcasts is to share Dee’s story and give voice to those impacted by cancer, offer a soft place to land for those sitting in waiting rooms or undergoing lengthy treatment - and hopefully, a laugh or two.
About Dee Pipik
At the age of seventeen, Dee Pipik was diagnosed with bone cancer.
She lost her right leg. For the rest of her life she wore a prosthesis.
When she was fifty, Dee developed breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy, intravenous chemo drug and radiological treatments, and long-term drug therapy.
Five years later Dee discovered the cancer had metastasized to her abdomen. Her metastatic breast cancer was controlled by chemo drugs for four years before surfacing for a final time.
