Sometimes, as a cancer survivor*, it’s difficult to express gratitude for still being alive. Not because of not feeling grateful, but because of feeling self-concious about that gratitude coming over as smugness. I have folks in my life right now who are living with cancer, and who won’t ever have a time where they will [...]
Sometimes, the biggest problem people have with cancer isn’t actually the cancer. It can be the way people respond when they find out we have cancer, and the way they respond to the things which happen to us because of cancer. I spoke to a woman a while ago who came home after several weeks [...]
This is one of those evenings I feel a little pensive – like I need to go have a good cry. Cancer is close today. I feel it’s presence, like a shadow. I remember the first time I felt death close by – the day I was diagnosed. I was teaching, and as I sat [...]
