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Amanda Stygar

What Cancer Taught Me About Earth Day

Today is Earth Day. Most of you might brush it off as another random holiday that appears as a little gray dot on your iPhone calendar…

3 min readApr 22, 2021

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What Cancer Taught Me About Earth Day

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Amanda Stygar

I’ve Been Called an Anti-vaxxer, but I Chose to Get a Covid Vaccine

I wasn’t a super hero. I didn’t do it as my part to save humanity. I didn’t do it because I was scared. I didn’t do it for the photo op. I…

6 min readMar 7, 2021

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I’ve Been Called an Anti-vaxxer, but I Chose to Get a Covid Vaccine

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Amanda Stygar

Take the Red Pill: when fake news rules the world, where can you turn for Truth?

When Elon Musk tweeted about the red pill a few weeks ago, it took me a few minutes to dust off the cobwebs from my memory. At the dawn of…

6 min readJun 8, 2020

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Take the Red Pill: when fake news rules the world, where can you turn for Truth?

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Amanda Stygar

Emerging from the Chrysalis of Quarantine

When we look back on this time in history, what will we remember? What will have been important? Where will we chide ourselves and where…

9 min readApr 11, 2020

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Emerging from the Chrysalis of Quarantine

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Amanda Stygar

The Carnivore Bucket List

You do have control over your own destiny.

10 min readJun 1, 2019

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The Carnivore Bucket List

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Amanda Stygar

The Cold that Could Have Killed Me

Staying healthy during chemotherapy is a top priority, because the consequences of catching even the smallest of colds could be…

15 min readApr 30, 2019

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The Cold that Could Have Killed Me

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Amanda Stygar

Here Comes the Sun: The Beauty, Pain and Irony in a Birth

There isn’t much I want to remember about the month of February. It was the month of scary unknowns. Was it lymphoma or something even…

13 min readApr 11, 2019

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Amanda Stygar

past… present…future

When I first found out I had lymphoma, back in December, when my GP gave the correct diagnosis that would soon after be reversed by an…

8 min readApr 6, 2019

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past… present…future

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Amanda Stygar

The First Time is Hard

There aren’t enough words to describe how incredibly sweet the doctors and nurses are who work at the oncology office. They really make an…

5 min readMar 20, 2019

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The First Time is Hard

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Amanda Stygar

Treatment Numero Uno

There’s something super counterintuitive about consenting to poison yourself, most especially when I’ve always been so cautious about…

2 min readMar 16, 2019

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Treatment Numero Uno

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Amanda Stygar

Amanda Stygar

I'm a: mom. wife. daughter. sister. teacher. writer. friend. cali girl. lymphoma survivor. local-organic foodie. new age hippie. packers fan. believer

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