It’s 3 AM. The house is quiet. I am the only one awake. Even the teenagers, who keep vampire hours, are sleeping. Today was my first chemo day in four weeks. I had a little “chemo vacation” because of a bad skin reaction. Chemo days are not painful, but the steroids keep me awake andContinue reading “Gratitude”
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A Love Letter to the Newly Diagnosed
A love letter to the newly diagnosed: Welcome! You have joined the shitty club! It is not a club that any of us ever wanted to join, but as my dad often said, “Nobody ever said life was fair.” Cancer DEFINITELY doesn’t play fair. If you had asked me before I was diagnosed for aContinue reading “A Love Letter to the Newly Diagnosed”