In Memory of Jenessa Schwartz – There’s Blood In My Stool (Rebroadcast)

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And The Next Thing You Know

Suzie Sherman

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And The Next Thing You Know is a podcast about how our lives go exactly not as we planned them. No matter how hard we cling to our plans for college and career and relationships and creative goals, it's actually the disruptions in our lives, the wrenches and the tangents, that throw us in a different direction and force us to inhabit these beautiful, messy, trauma filled, disappointing, gorgeous, sexy lives, despite ourselves. Find us, and host Suzie Sherman, at nextthingpodcast.com; nextthingpod on fb, gmail, & patreon; soozenextthing on insta & twitter.

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In Memory of Jenessa Schwartz – There’s Blood In My Stool (Rebroadcast)

And The Next Thing You Know

1 hour 42 minutes 40 seconds

1 year ago

In Memory of Jenessa Schwartz – There’s Blood In My Stool (Rebroadcast)

And The Next Thing You Know podcastEpisode 016: In Memory of Jenessa Schwartz

The transcript for the new introduction is here.

My niece Jenessa Schwartz died on November 1, 2023, after living with a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis since March, 2017. She was 41 years old.
This is a rebroadcast of our podcast conversation from 2019, with an updated introduction.
We talked in detail about the early days of her diagnosis, many of the various treatments she endured, and the effects of surgery and chemo on her spirits. We also talked about what it was like to discuss her cancer with her young kids, and how she embraced a new relationship amid this major transition in her life.

Early onset colon cancer is on the rise.

If you have any GI symptoms you’re suspicious about, at any age, talk to your doctor about getting a colonoscopy. And if you’re 45 or older, even with no symptoms, it’s time to schedule your first screening colonoscopy. If you detect colon cancer early, it’s very treatable. Get on that.

More about Jenessa

If you’d like to learn more about Jenessa Schwartz, please read her truly wonderful blogs:
My Colon Cancer: Semicolon, Not Full Stopabout her experience as a stage 4 cancer thriver
and Womb For Hire about becoming a gestational surrogate to two beautiful kids.
There is also a lovely obituary written by Leslie Katz for J. The Jewish News of Northern California.We love you, Ness.

Suzie Shermanis the host and producer of And The Next Thing You Know. She's a podcaster, writer, content marketer, and ever-aspiring creative noodler.

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