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Cancer Banter: October 2010
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Thursday, October 14, 2010. I've made great progress. Since my hospital stair-climbing meltdown. Thanks to the help of a top-notch physical therapist, I'm now going up and down the staircase with confidence and ease. Here's a video of the technique. And, of course, I had real motivation to make the climb: my own bed and a hot shower. Gives new meaning to bed, bath and beyond. Links to this post. Monday, October 11, 2010. She's Got the Look. I love a line from the trailer of "She's Got the Look,". I have ...
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Cancer Banter: November 2010
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Friday, November 12, 2010. Is there a story in you? Greetings, Cancer Banter readers! It's been a long time (thank heavens) since I've needed to post here in my role as Susan's "cancer correspondent.". Susan took the fiction plunge last year and wrote "The Fourth Possibility," which starts:. Read the rest here. My most recent story is about a woman with a very peculiar superpower. This week we have a darkly comic Thanksgiving story. Writing Flash Fiction Won't Hurt You. The #1 Flash Fiction Writing Skill.
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Cancer Banter: June 2010
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010. If You Can't Find It, Make It - Crab Fried Rice. When my favorite Thai restaurant closed a few years ago, I searched in vain for a crab fried rice that was good as Nana's. Turns out I didn't have to go far to find it. Go to Open Mouth, Insert Fork. To learn how to make Thai crab fried rice - a dish where the crisp flavors of fish sauce, lime juice and ginger complement the subtlety of the crab. Links to this post. Tuesday, June 22, 2010. A Trio of Good News. Links to this post.
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Cancer Banter: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010. The Skinny on Susan. Life is a series of two steps forward and one step back. Or, in my case, two pounds forward, ten pounds back. I know I've written before about seeing a GI specialist, and I've finally scheduled an appointment for September 7. I'm eager to get to the bottom of this. (No pun intended.). Links to this post. Thursday, August 5, 2010. I think I'm at the tail end of a cold and am enjoying the surge in energy and the chance to finally work on "rebuilding.". Speakin...
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Cancer Banter: The Great Cat Napping Caper
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Sunday, July 13, 2008. The Great Cat Napping Caper. Which I decided to accept, was to get one pissed off Puss into her cat carrier in SF and back to her new home in LA. Luckily, Bob's dear friend James, agreed to be my cat-napping partner in crime. When James isn't busy trying to pull off the purr-fect crime, he's spinning discs at some of San Francisco's finest underground gay night clubs. We couldn't find a parking place within a one-mile radius of the apartment. We brought Puss to see Master Bob at th...
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Cancer Banter: December 2010
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Thursday, December 2, 2010. When Patient Fatigue Sets In. I'll never forget my first day as a wide-eyed freshman at a small university in South Carolina. When I learned that one of my roomies was a senior, I gushed, "Oh, it must be so sad to know that this is your last year." "Believe me," she replied. "When the time comes, you're ready.". Now I have patient fatigue, but not the kind that comes from massive doses of chemo. I'm simply tired of being a patient. If I have to take one more test or se...Last ...
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Cancer Banter: Feeling Guilty?
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011. From blogging guilt, gardening guilt and grapefruit guilt. At least there's a cure for the last one. Read all about it at Open Mouth, Insert Fork. Weve never met but Im so happy to know youre alive! Im a 2X cancer survivor (NHL) who found your blog some time ago. Ive followed your journey, been inspired by your posts and remembered you in my prayers. (Im a pastor, married 30 years last wek and I have 2 amazing adult kids). June 12, 2011 at 7:55 PM. June 21, 2011 at 2:15 PM. I thi...
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Cancer Banter: Is there a story in you?
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Friday, November 12, 2010. Is there a story in you? Greetings, Cancer Banter readers! It's been a long time (thank heavens) since I've needed to post here in my role as Susan's "cancer correspondent.". Susan took the fiction plunge last year and wrote "The Fourth Possibility," which starts:. Read the rest here. My most recent story is about a woman with a very peculiar superpower. This week we have a darkly comic Thanksgiving story. Writing Flash Fiction Won't Hurt You. The #1 Flash Fiction Writing Skill.
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Cancer Banter: Back to Pole Dancing
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011. Back to Pole Dancing. Friend Anna helps hold down Puss while I prepare the needle. A bag of fluids on a makeshift IV pole brings me back to my pole dancing days. There's nothing quite like a feeling of accomplishment. I felt that when I first mastered the art of dancing with my two-left-wheeled IV pole partner. When I was a patient at the City of Hope. And I felt it more recently when I found myself in the reverse role of caretaker. My aging and cantankerous cat Puss. You didnt ...
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Cancer Banter: Terminal Embarrassment
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Friday, June 22, 2007. When I first got my mantle cell lymphoma diagnosis , I thought, "Oh my god - this is how I'm gonna' die.". Then I heard about the treatment. You know you're in trouble when your regimen includes. The word "hyper," as in " hyper. For a while, I was convinced that the chemo would do me in. But when I checked in to Hotel Hope and met the IV pole, the contraption that would be tethered to me 24-7, I sensed that the "pole of death" could place first in a trifecta. Race to the grave.
