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NiCole's Notes

NiCole's Notes

著者： Nicole Zeller
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NiCole's Notes: The study guide for adulting. Witty, rigorous analysis of everything that matters: politics, love, illness, friendship, technology, aging, and the contradictions we live with. Sarcastic scholarship for the thinking Gen-X mind. Smart when it matters and Witty always.


A graduate from the University of Calgary, B.A. Political Science '95, B.A.Spanish '08, born with cystic fibrosis, a lung disease that has been trying to kill me since birth. Hanging on to life by the horns with only 26% lung function. I have 20+ years of experience building organizations and understanding how systems actually work.

Founder of the Summit Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis, raising 3.5+ million dollars for local research, Philanthropist of the year for Alberta in 2014, Honoured with the naming of a research lab at the Cumming School of Medicine, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, at the University of Calgary in 2013. Featured in a documentary about my journey with CF and being a CrossFit athlete, while owning my own gym in 2018. I have been a part of a 350 million dollar fundraising campaign and had a 50' banner of my mug hanging off the Foothills Hospital for 4 years from 2003-2007.


Currently finishing two programs at the University of Calgary, one in Graphic Design (graduating June 15, 2026) and the other in Integrated Digital Media (graduating May 2027), my friends would consider me the Sassy Smurf out of the group.


I may have been given a cactus, but I don't have to sit on it.

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  • The Feeding Tube

    The Feeding Tube
    2026/08/24

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    46 pounds lost in 7 years. 74 lbs at wedding. Surgery 6 weeks before marriage. "You'll die without this tube." Walking down the aisle as a skeleton.
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    21 分
  • When I Closed My Eyes

    When I Closed My Eyes
    2026/08/19

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    Trigger Warning: Medical trauma, childhood fear, anxiety, hypervigilance

    What happens to a child's mind when doctors and nurses repeatedly invade their body and sleep without consent?

    This bonus episode bridges The Exacerbation and The Feeding Tube. It's the story of what I didn't talk about in the main series: the bat under my bed, the nightly combat planning, the terror of closed eyes, and how I learned to sneak undetected into my parents' room just to feel safe.

    For years, I couldn't understand why I was so hypervigilant. Why I couldn't relax. Why I refused help even when I was dying. Now, at 54, I understand: the hospital trained me to be afraid. And I've spent my whole life carrying the bat in different forms.

    This is the episode about how medical trauma creates survival strategies that both save you and destroy you. It's dark. It's vulnerable. And it's the key to understanding everything that comes after.
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    14 分
  • The Exacerbation: When the Glass Cracks

    The Exacerbation: When the Glass Cracks
    2026/08/12

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    This is the story of a 22-year-old who thought she was invincible. Who had survived 10 years of hiding CF. Who had proven to the world that her disease didn't define her.

    And then her lungs decided to call her bluff.

    The hamster wheel was brutal:

    • Thursday, Friday, Saturday: out until 2-3 a.m., drinking to blackout, not eating
    • Sunday: sleep all day, try to eat, try to catch up on homework
    • Weekdays: slogging across campus to 8 a.m. classes (which she skipped), working 2-6 p.m. at a data entry job, studying in residence until late

    All while her lungs were in decline.
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    22 分
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