I like people who make the crucial catch, who root and cheer for others to make their crucial catch. I’m a sports fan. That’s what sports fans do. What else do sports fans do? They see shadows of sports everywhere; they hear echoes of sports talk radio before starting the car. Most of all, sports […]
CANCER MEMORIES: UNEXPECTED MOMENTS OF LOVE AND KINDNESS
I made a list of cancer memories to use in my memoir. Not all of them made the cut. A book needs the big stuff; these are the smaller cancer memories:
CHEMO COMEDY SHOW: WAS IT SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY
In the final analysis, no, there’s no such thing as chemo comedy, just moments that surpassed some of the funniest things I’ve seen or heard. It started with the first appointment with the chemo doc. We’d met before.
BOOK NOTES: AN UNCOMFORTABLE TASK BUT SOMEONE’S GOT TO DO IT
What struck me when I started writing book notes were the words from who knows where I found them, but here they are, “You’d better love the the book topic because at some point you’re going to hate it.” And it’s true, except I sort of hated it from the start since my book notes […]
HPV16 SCIENCE FOR THE FEARFUL
The nice couple have had a hard time dealing with HPV16 cancer in different places, awkward places, and they show their maturity by addressing it without the stigma. Stigma, you ask? What stigma. Stigma according to the Cambridge Dictionary: a strong lack of respect for a person or a group of people or a bad opinion of them because they have done something society does not approve of. Click more for the […]
MEMOIR REMINDER: ALL ABOUT YOU BUT STARTS WITH ME
My story, your story, one story What’s a memoir reminder? Just that the book called a memoir isn’t a biography, auto-biography, or a novel. None of that, not for a memoir. It’s all about keeping time and not flying all over the place in a random, scattershot, manner. An example of where it starts and […]
CANCER RECOVERY: ONE MAIN KEY
I’ve got a serious cancer recovery question in the vein of what came first, the chicken or the egg, after reading this. Maybe this isn’t the right place to ask, but come on blogosphere. The BBC reports, “HPV vaccine linked to ‘dramatic’ drop in cervical disease.” The next research I want to see is a […]
Neck Cancer: Part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer
OHNC, for oral, head and neck cancer sounds more like a government agency, as in “let’s meet at the OHNC building and go from there.” Except no one wants to go anywhere near OHNC any time. Speaking from direct experience, No One Wants To Go There. Any Time. But here we are. […]