Clip my lush blond to the root and strip away my self-identity with all its egoic glory. Like Hell Week with its mental anguish and physical punishment, I am undergoing an initiation of sorts-- This one will make or break me.I thought I had it until those damn CT scans showed the cancer growing …
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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 …