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Continue reading →: A Great Karma Story
I squinted at the parking meter machine in front of me. All I had to do was put money in, tell it how long I wanted on the meter, and it would spit out the proper receipt for me to place on my windshield. The October morning sun lay out…
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Continue reading →: Learning to Still My Mind – Reiki
One of the best things that going through cancer treatment has taught me is to be still. Maybe that sounds a little crazy – who doesn’t know how to sit still? But I didn’t. In my real life, I didn’t really know how to be still. Day after day I…
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Continue reading →: Approaching the Speed of Light by Victoria Lustbader – What I’m Reading Now
Right up until the last moments of the book, Approaching the Speed of Light leaves readers wondering what will happen to poor, broken Jody. The author, Victoria Lustbader, draws the main character with such precision that any person who has ever been hurt or watched someone hurting can identify with…
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Continue reading →: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way out of the Chemo Room
Today, as I do the day after every chemotherapy session, I took myself back to the chemo room to get a shot of Neulasta, the wonder drug that boosts my white blood cells, which chemo kills off, rendering me immunosuppressed. The Neulasta rebuilds the white blood cells within about 10…
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Continue reading →: The High Holidays – At My Home Away From Home
The shofar made me cry this year. I was sitting between Ellie and Steve like any good daughter, and the hush of readiness came over the sanctuary. The Rabbi chanted the first “Tekiah” and the shofar’s clarion call rose through the hall and touched the souls of those assembled. Without…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes Beauty IS Skin Deep
The side effects of chemo are getting a bit stronger as I’ve gone through the treatments, but I’ve managed them pretty well so far. As expected, I lost my hair fairly quickly. Now I’m losing my eyebrows and eyelashes. I’m not normally so vain, but I’ve been feeling like my…
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Continue reading →: My First Medical Experience – A Real Gift
One of the very first people I met on my cancer journey was Dr. Irnest Oser. Dr. Oser is a general practitioner and pulmonologist in Silver Spring, Maryland. Ellie recommended that I see him and I was able to get an appointment with him for the Monday I came into…
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Continue reading →: The Chemo Room
Every three weeks I have chemotherapy at The Katzen Cancer Center at the George Washington University Hospital. It’s not the place I would chose to spend my time, but since I have to have chemotherapy, this is the place I want to be. Every person, from the women who check…
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Continue reading →: Cancer – A Few Silver Linings
My husband Marc has taken the kids back to Tokyo to re-start their “real” lives. Bailey is a freshman at The American School in Japan (ASIJ) and my daughter, Sydney, started middle school, grade six, at Nishimachi International School (NIS). Both kids have been at their respective schools for a…
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