Bite Size Bish: State of Affairs
Your Bish Therapist
Melissa Reich
4.6 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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YBT shares a raw and vulnerable peek inside the experience of a cancer patient during the recent NIH cuts to cancer funding and research. YBT shares how this will impact her life, and the lives of millions of other patients. Through this, YBT talks coping skills, anxiety reduction techniques and ways to cope. Thank you for holding space for YBT
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to an episode of bite-sized bish. I am so happy to be able to bring you this |
| 0:08.7 | episode today and happy to be talking with you all, of course, but I will acknowledge that today's |
| 0:14.1 | bite-sized bish is going to be intense. It's going to be real talk. It's going to be, you know, |
| 0:20.8 | hard information that I'm going to be sharing |
| 0:22.9 | with you. But allow me to explain. You know, with what's happening in the world, we wake up every day |
| 0:30.3 | and there's, you know, news and headlines. And I know it's been stressful for everybody. And it |
| 0:36.5 | kind of seems like the world is in a really scary |
| 0:40.0 | place. I think by design to freak people out. And, you know, that's how people are able to gain |
| 0:46.0 | control. But so I just want to share for people. I've been really behind the scenes straight |
| 0:53.0 | up panicking and fearing for my life. And I think it's time that I share with you all. Normally with my health and with things that go on, I try to not freak people out because that's not what I want to do. But it's time to freak people out because things are scary right now. |
| 1:13.9 | And so allow me to explain why. |
| 1:17.5 | On February 9, 2025, became informed that President Trump's administration imposed a new policy to cap |
| 1:25.5 | indirect costs for National Institutes of Health, NIH research. |
| 1:29.5 | He capped costs, but also cut billions of dollars in funding for life-saving research to develop cures in treatments for diseases. |
| 1:40.8 | So essentially, this administration has dismantled efforts to find a cure for cancer and other |
| 1:47.8 | deadly disorders and diseases. |
| 1:51.3 | And I'm going to just be real and raw with you all in terms of what this means for me. |
| 1:59.8 | For those of you who may be, I don't know, are newer to be a listener |
| 2:05.8 | or, you know, just don't know my story, I'm a two-time cancer survivor. And when I say that the |
| 2:14.6 | only reason I'm here is because of research and technology, I mean that. |
| 2:20.0 | And I don't mean that once, but I mean that twice. |
| 2:22.8 | When I was 17, I had avarian cancer. |
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