Robert Andrew Wagner is a writer, teacher, and performer, teaching through stories, telling stories through songs as frontman and chief songwriter/lyricist for The Little Wretches. Wagner is a survivor of cancer, holds a master’s degree in Instruction and Learning, and teaches and counsels at-risk teens.
- 02:20: The Little Wretches was the band I started when my survival was clear.
- 04:42: I find this little lump in my groin.
- 06:09: I had one positive lymph node.
- 08:35: We just found a lump the size of a walnut and on each of your lungs.
- 09:48: I did miss a few chemo sessions.
- 13:00: Did it have any impact on your ability to have kids?
- 15:00: I think the chemo affected my thinking.
- 18:56: It's like my life came back to me.
- 21:11: Were you alone in this hospital?
- 23:00: They kept on trying to tell him that he had AIDS.
- 25:14: What is the one thing you wish you had known at the very beginning of your cancer journey?
- 27:03: If you could only do one thing to improve health care in the US, what would it
- be and why?
- 28:15: Thriver Rapid Fire Questions.
- 31:13: Trust your doctors.
- 33:07: Where did the name of the band come from?
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Welcome to the Cancer U Thrivers Podcast. Join me each week as I interview cancer patients, caregivers, survivors, and providers about their cancer journeys.
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ANDREA WILSON WOODS is a writer who loves to tell stories, and a patient advocate who founded the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. Andrea is the CEO and co-founder of Cancer University, a for-profit, social-benefit, digital health company. With Cancer U, Andrea synergizes her talents of coaching, writing, teaching, and advocacy. For over ten years, Andrea worked in the education field as a teacher and professor for public and private schools as well as universities. Andrea obtained her master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California; her nonfiction writing has won national awards. Her bestselling and award-winning medical memoir Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days is about the seven years she raised her younger sister Adrienne until her death at age 15 from stage IV liver cancer.
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