Ulcerative Colitis

For $25 per person, $45 per couple and $8 per child, participants can ski, eat pasta, dance to DJ music and bid on items in a silent auction.Donaldson will be there.

She should be feeling relatively well that day — it’s an off-week on her chemo calendar.

Every other Wednesday, for the last four months, a nurse at the Cancer Treatment Center has hooked up Donaldson’s portal to a machine that delivers FOLFOX and Avastin into her veins.

While her body absorbs the drugs, she sits in the reclining chair and records her intake in a diary.

At first, Donaldson can carry on a lively conversation, but after 20 minutes or so, her fatigue becomes apparent.“My body’s fighting a battle in there,” she says.

“Cancer drugs aren’t discretionary about what t...

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