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A great day with the gynecologist

To get what happened today, you have to get where I’m coming from. I was 45 years old.  I had two children.  I had breast cancer.  My prognosis was terrible.  I couldn’t think of anything else.   24/7 doesn’t even describe it.  I was obsessed.  Possessed.  Cancer invaded my brain just like it invaded my body. […]

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Character test

2009 is only a month old but it’s already shaping up to be a tough year.  The economy is scary enough; but it seems as if every day I hear about someone else battling cancer.  All kinds of cancer.  Like a cancer chain reaction. Maybe I hear more stories than the average person because I’m a […]

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Survivors of something

I don’t write a lot about cancer here–not because I don’t have enough to say, but because I have too much.  Like, don’t get me started.  But now it’s on my mind, thanks to some comments from yesterday.  So I’ll say this, and then maybe I won’t discuss cancer again for awhile. Once my mother died of cancer, getting […]

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Why me?

Tonight I talked to a friend who is going through a crisis.  Her situation is completely out of my own personal experience.  And yet something about the conversation felt very familiar.  Her pain felt familiar.  Her fear.  And the question underneath: Why me? As a cancer patient, I was very familiar with this question that most […]

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Beach Walk

Today is my friend Myra’s birthday.  I’m not planning to make a habit of announcing birthdays.  It was embarrassing enough on mine.  But today is meaningful because Myra and I are taking a walk on the beach.  And I feel really lucky about that. Not just lucky that we’re walking on a beach in California while some people are […]

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Smelling the Roses

POST FROM THE COAST—( POSTED OCTOBER 19 BUT LOST FOR TECHNICAL REASONS)   I have to confess….. I feel guilty that I get to live in such a beautiful part of the world. And I couldn’t resist posting these pictures that I took on the way to the retreat.   The healing started before I […]

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