Tag: survivors
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January 05, 2010 11:40 AM EST --
Here we go again, the stunning palette of fall foliage, the leopard spotting of sycamores against a gray November sky, the brittle invigorating snap of cold air that greets you on December mornings . . .
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January 05, 2010 10:46 AM EST --
Hoorah for latte and real fires and gas logs with blowers and fleece-lined jeans and hugs from friends and good books and flashlights under the covers at night. I'm back on Gather after a long cancer . . .
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June 27, 2009 01:30 PM EDT --
This is an old poem, and I've posted it previously, but I just made some changes to it, and I'd love to have some feedback.
the closet
she likes the darkness . . .
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May 20, 2008 10:24 PM EDT --
I park my car and rummage in my purse for my cell phone. "Why the hell don't I ever put anything BACK where it belongs ?" I sputter. "And how many friggin' receipts and dead lottery . . .
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June 04, 2009 10:53 AM EDT --
Many of us have lost loved ones to cancer or may be suffering from it ourselves. This Sunday is National Cancer Survivors Day
In the United States, the first Sunday in the month of . . .
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November 16, 2009 07:08 PM EST --
Earlier today I heard a LOT of sirens and knew that something BIG had occurred. Then helicopters came and that was confirmed. So we turned on the news.
Here is a link to the story:
http://www.justnews.com/news/21632460/detail.html . . .
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October 21, 2006 12:50 PM EDT --
As I am a survivor myself, I just wanted to share with you some of my thoughts and I have dedicated this article to my friends who are survivors and to the others who are still fighting to survive. I am . . .
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March 25, 2009 12:17 AM EDT --
I had my appointment with the oncologist on Friday, March 13 to discuss my recent stereotactic core biopsy and other issues which seemed tied to my treatment.
The official pathology report states: . . .
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June 06, 2009 03:23 AM EDT --
Understanding suicide for many people is a very hard thing to try to do.
Some people get to a place where they have an angel on one shoulder saying "no don't do it", and a devil on the . . .
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November 14, 2008 11:26 PM EST --
Here's my latest installment about the progression of my treatment progress re: breast cancer. As you may recall from my last writing, I have finished radiation on October 14. It was suggested . . .
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November 15, 2006 08:11 PM EST --
There was a time when I hid my past from myself, and the world, finding it easier to wear my own pains behind a mask, or perhaps afraid that people would shun me knowing my truth. Without going into . . .
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September 28, 2007 11:40 AM EDT --
I am absolutely riveted to the TV screen as I watch Ken Burn’s production of World War II, and in particular how it affected average families all over the United States. I think Burns has done . . .
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November 21, 2008 04:21 PM EST --
"It was then I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living. It was better than sex, better than winning the lottery, better than watching your . . .
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December 29, 2008 10:59 PM EST --
I have had some issues develop since I finished my last chemotherapy in July and suspect that I may sensitive to gluten products as I have had numerous gastric explosions when I attempt eating some foods. . . .
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January 04, 2009 06:02 PM EST --
I had my appointment with my oncologist on New Year's Eve day and I had the blessing to meet a remarkable young woman called Kim C., a 27 year old that is currently receiving chemotherapy treatments . . .
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April 29, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
Free
Debt paid to society
Free
Mama's home cooking
Free
Lovin' my woman
Free
Do something with my life
Free
Can't work here with a record
Free
No Grant for my education
Free
Home . . .
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June 07, 2007 01:21 PM EDT --
So here's a novel idea [NOT] but it's one i currently hold near and dear to me, how many of us have had friends and/or family members [or perhaps themselves] battling or battled cancer, regardless . . .
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October 27, 2007 09:03 AM EDT --
Cancer is one of the scariest words that I have heard aimed towards me. I could have sworn that I wasn't going to have it. Life is funny. One day you don't have it, the next . . .
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June 24, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Pam's voice sounds far away and thin, like she can't quite get the breath to form the words.
"There's no easy way to say this. It's Kenny. He has cancer. . . .
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June 24, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
Your Mom makes you scrambled eggs
And toast with strawberry jam,
And feeds it to you in little bites,
While she tells you how high the tomato plants are,
And . . .
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