I’ve been having trouble with the cold, my Floridian blood is too thin to bear this unrelenting freeze. A friend of mine who is all too aware of my plight, a fragrant and fetching Mississippi magnolia who was transplanted many years ago to an icy Nordic …
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Homeschooling While Sick
I have this memory in my head, a happy vision of an otherwise grueling time. My ten-year-old towhead, grinning from ear to ear. I can hear the giggles if I close my eyes. His English lesson that day came in the form of a rousing game …
Hurry Up and Wait
I collected another bracelet last week. I added another paper one to the pile, the kind you have to cut off your wrist after a long day in oncology. I collect them. I don’t know why, but I add them to a growing stack right after …
A Scanxiety Timeline
It’s that time of the year again, folks. It’s scan time! For those of you who don’t know, scan time is the time where us folks with oddly multiplying cells get raked over with a fine toothed comb to see if our cells are, in fact, …
I Need You To Stop Trying To ‘Help’ Me
I was polite the first time I was offered long distance reiki as a cure for my disease. I even recall saying thank you. I was newly diagnosed. I needed all the help I could get. And, after all, she was just ‘helping.’ The second offer …
When Your Sick Friends Need You, This Is All You Have To Do
Scan time is upon us me once again. In three days I’ll drive three hours to sit in a waiting room and wait impatiently for someone to call my name. I’ll answer all the questions I’ve answered too many times before. No, I’m not claustrophobic. No, …
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Giving New Another Try
This post is the fifth in a series, The Other Side of Being Sick, chronicling my path to learning to be well once again. You can read all the posts in this series by clicking here. I got my hair cut this weekend. Or my ‘hairs’ …
How To Be Vegan With An Asterisk
This post is the third in a series, The Other Side of Being Sick, chronicling my path to learning to be well once again. You can read the entire series by clicking here. I don’t make resolutions, but I do take pause at the beginning of …
Resolve to Reconnect
This post is the first in a series, The Other Side of Being Sick, chronicling my path to learning how to be well once again. We relocated our entire life just months after my tumor was declared dead. An emotional whirlwind of boxes, paperwork, and teary …
