A smart therapist told me that having a child is like wearing your heart outside of your body for the rest of your life. Never is it more true than when your child has cancer.
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Intellectually we know that cancer can happen to anybody at any time, but we tend to associate it with older people. When a grandparent gets diagnosed with cancer, we are sad, but it does not seem...
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My future father-in-law died this week. He had prostate cancer. When I met Hank ( not his real name), he was introduced as a “health nut”, a seventy-something year old man who’d eaten sushi...
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Friday. After a long week we faced an hour-long trip to Fort Lauderdale to my son’s debate tournament. Eric and I were chaperones of the two-day event. By dinnertime, I was fading and the...
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A longstanding patient came in to have me check a sore spot on her breast. Usually chipper and with energy belying her 80+ years, she seemed morepre-occupied than the typical “I think I might...
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A longstanding patient came in to have me check a sore spot on her breast. Usually chipper and with energy belying her 80+ years, she seemed morepre-occupied than the typical “I think I might...
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I was examining a patient when the cell phone in my pocket vibrated. “Excuse me, but it might be one of my children,” I explained. The patient graciously encouraged me to answer it. Sure enough...
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Entering the exam room, I noted from her chart that the patient in for her annual pelvic exam was a healthy thirty-seven year old. Sue was a chatty and upbeat mother-of-three and we‘d share funny...
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An interview with my mother |
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Mom, do you remember the day you found out that I had cancer?
Of course I do! We were in Santa Fe for a psychiatric conference called Creatvity or Madness. Your father and I had been attending the...
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