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Two nights ago, I was settling in for an evening of knitting and lattes with a couple of good friends, when my cell phone rang. It was my spouse calling. “Lucy got out.”
I tried to leave the cancer world, at least as much as I could while still seeing an oncologist regularly and being tested for cancer every three months. I tried not to focus on cancer, to go back to my “normal” life, but I learned the hard truth of surviving cancer, we never really go [...]
I had an interesting conversation today with a man in his eighties diagnosed with lung cancer. He’s already lived a year with it, it’s a single small tumor that’s stayed the same size and even shrunk a bit with treatment. It hasn’t gone anywhere else. But he felt it was unfair that he had cancer, [...]
The last month has been challenging, as far as my health is concerned. There is nothing seriously wrong with me and as far as the cancer is concerned, I’m in fine shape. Instead, I’ve been dealing with some unpleasant and uncomfortable digestive issues. Whether this is due to my age or the toll of long [...]
Obesity Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A crude population measure of obesity is the body mass index (a person’s weight (in kilograms) divided by the square of his or her height (in meters). Overweight and obesity are major risk factors when people eat [...]
I’m feeling very grateful tonight. Grateful that I am part of the cancer community. I am grateful for those of you I’ve met and corresponded with and talked to on the phone. Those I’ve met in person in my community. Just since publishing my web site I’ve communicated with over 220 appendiceal cancer patients. I [...]
I am at a kind of new crossroads lately. And I like it. I’m approaching 50 years old. I’m also approaching an empty nest, which I will celebrate as it will mean I’ve lived long enough to complete my greatest and most rewarding goal to date, raising my kids to adulthood.
makoa, isn’t he cute?
the seventh edition of real cancer, real lives is up over at nothing to say. please go and check it out, as most of the regulars are much better writers than i, and all have unique insights.