June 10, 2013 Prompt: 10 minutes: “this time” This Time This time I am braver. I haven’t even sent out an email yet, put it on Facebook, keeping the cancer private, more or less, for the past week. This time it feels so much more manageable -- almost routine. I mean I know it’s surgery
How bizarre it is to know there are malignant cancer cells inside of you, just waiting, waiting, waiting for an MRI to provide more information so you can decide how to proceed. "Simple" lumpectomy, again, no nodes this time? That would be awesome! Awesome. Really? isn't awesome a relative term now! I guess most of
Prompt: 24 minutes: “Ageless” May 16, 2013 Ageless Ageless is how I feel at 53. Such an odd number -- not sexy, not old and wise, somewhere in between. Reaching back, just a bit, I am vibrant, sexy, the life of the party. Sparkly, beaming on the outside, in the prime of life supposedly. Yes,
Thoughts on Writing from author Elizabeth Berg For my writer friends - I LOVE this - a facebook post from one of my favorite authors of all time - Elizabeth Berg. Thanks, Elizabeth - I feel the same way about writing! "Thanks so much to all of you who answered the question about what you'd
It's the night before the PET scan that will reveal whether the 9.4 mm "lesion" on my brain is anything to worry about or not. Obviously I'm glad to have some answer as to why I've had such increasingly frequent and debilitating headaches, especially during the past 6 weeks, complete with nausea and pretty much
