A year of chemotherapy lay ahead for Karen Gadbois. Once a week, she would spend time in a big room at New Orleans’ Ochsner Medical Center with other cancer patients. They’d sit on recliners, drugs flowing into their bodies through thin tubes.
“Everyone’s in their space — some people with families, some people alone,” Gadbois said. “Some people sleeping, some people not.”
She opted to use her time differently. There was Wi-Fi in the chemo lounge, so she set up shop and started a blog. “I was trying to generate an environment for myself, and the computer helped me do that,” she recalled. “It just sort of took me away.”
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