22 Years Cancer-Free!
Today marks the twenty-second anniversary of the day my radiologist called and told my parents, “We got it all.” I wasn’t home at the time, and this pre-dated cell phones, so the way...
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Category: Cancer
On Grief and Over-Identifying with Childhood Loss
The announcement came at 11:30 on Friday morning: New York schools would be closed for the year. It wasn’t a surprise, of course. I didn’t think I had a shred of expectation that we might ...
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How Scars Become Beautiful
One doesn’t get to adulthood without acquiring a few scars, of both the emotional and physical kind. You could be emotionally scarred from a difficult childhood, from being bullied, rejected, d...
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A Change Of Perspective: Cancer Speaks To Me
The other night, I was chatting with my mother-in-law in my kitchen while Edwin spooned pureed vegetables into his mouth (or tried to, anyway). I was telling her how much I’d enjoyed interviewin...
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Lauren’s Story: “My Tumor Went Away”
Today’s cancer story belongs to Lauren, who has cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which falls under the umbrella of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “It’s one of the few cancers that you can n...
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Laura’s Breast Cancer Story
This week, I’m publishing stories of other cancer fighters and survivors. Monday’s post featured Marie’s story. Today’s post features Laura, my partner in cancer, friendship an...
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