There's a stranger in our house.I catch a glimpse of her in the mirror and turn away. I'm not ready to face her yet. My husband comes up behind me and puts his hands on my shoulders. He steers me back to the mirror. I don't know who that girl is but she doesn't look like me. My hand creeps to my …
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GI Jane, Cancer & Coronavirus
There's a woman in the lobby of the cancer center in her 70s, Jackie O shades and a perfectly shaped silver bob, too perfect to be real. I want to stick my hands in it and muss it up. Instead I run my hands through my own hair, freshly showered and too real to be perfect. I'm approaching chemo week …
Cancer? You got the wrong girl, doc
Cancer. Just like the Coronavirus, I never saw it coming.That’s what gets me the most. Shouldn't I have intuitively felt something was wrong? My bloodwork was perfect. Pain stabbing me like a knife might've been helpful. Actually, I did have pain. A bothersome ache in my lower right abdomen that …