What Radiation Treatment is Like
Radiation Treatment Third day of radiation treatment and I’m already making enemies with the inmates. There are twenty lockers for approximately 3-4 women going through the locker room at any given time. You already know what happened when I went in there, and I think you know me well enough to know how I responded. Locker […]
MoreRadiation Treatment: Superstitions
Superstitions: Part 1 A photo is worth a thousand words, right? So, decades past my teenage years, I am finally a sexter. You heard me. I was having difficulty explaining to my non-proximal friends what all the hub-bub about my chest lines was about so I sent a photo of Me Boob to my girlfriend. […]
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Luxury: Eve Before Radiation Treatment I spent a delightful hour on the stair stepper this morning with all the other resolutionaries except that the guy next to me could not go more than twenty seconds without staring at the blue lines below my clavicle (handy word, that). I thought he might injure himself he was […]
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This morning started with Devlin offering me a two inch hard pink plastic hippo and its exact blue plastic hippo companion.
MorePeace (The Children Are Gone!)
The children are away for three nights and three days. It’s almost like they’re not here.
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Prep for Radiation: Skin Mark-up
Girl with the London Tube Map Tattoo: Prep for Radiation It was a wild visit with my radiation oncologist this week. I popped in for my radiation simulation not knowing exactly what to expect. What I didn’t expect was to leave with seven tattoos and a rendering of the blue line and the red line from the London […]
MoreIf Mothers Rebelled: Brave New holiday World
One year I’d like to be like some folks you know who just have the holidays appear Christmas morning. Presents materialize from do-gooder yuletide aliens. Winter Fairies leave perfectly wrapped gifts with juicy silver bows. Trunk monkeys with jingle bells do all the grocery shopping and pre-holiday food preparations. Someone else thinks to have enough toilet […]
MoreRadiation Oncology: The Full Monty
Radiology Oncology appointment this week. We’re gonna go for the full monty (different context than Devlin’s full monty in the park over the weekend). Full monty only in the sense that I’ll have six weeks of treatment as opposed to one. I had an opportunity to undergo a shorter, more directed course of radiation to […]
MoreAutism Parenting during Holidays
Autism Parenting during Holidays Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. This will sound strange to those who have neuro-typical children, but the last few years we have been working with my son Devlin in therapy to teach him how to respond to Christmas traditions. On the one hand, our holidays are filled with […]
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The Free Pass List For Marrieds
The Free Pass List Do you and your significant other subscribe to the concept of keeping “The List”? You know, a list each of you disclose to each other of the Top 5 celebrities that the other is allowed to have their way with if fate ever put any of those celebrities on The List in their path. Like […]
MoreNo Chemotherapy For You!
No Chemotherapy Just in Time For the Holidays It struck me today when I was waiting in my medical oncologist’s patient office that I have more boob cancer doctors than I have breasts. Any more doctors in the room and we’ll need a lubricant. It’s like having more children than I have hands, or more […]
MoreDiving Into Orthodonture
Up Next: Orthodonture I broke Rowan out of school this week to take her to her first orthodontist appointment. I can’t think of the orthodontist without thinking about Raising Arizona. Meddling friend Dot to aspiring mother Edwina McDunnough: “He’s gotta have his dip-tet, honey. You started his bank accounts yet?” “Have we done that? We gotta do […]
MoreForty-somethings in Swimwear
There are some things that should be easier. Like Forty-somethings in swimwear. That shouldn’t be so hard. Just so you know how far I will go in the name of friendship, yesterday I donned a tarty swimsuit corset strangulation device two sizes too small for me to help an eight year old’s dream of having an […]
MoreAutism not Rudeness: Full of Surprises
I’m full of surprises these days. Before I explain some behavior is a result of autism not rudeness, it turns out I don’t need chemotherapy. Only I sort of wanted it. Who in their right mind would want chemotherapy? I do, as it turns out. It has surprised me, but I guess I’m a full […]
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