6th Cancerversary

The world spinsas a beeping sound echoes around me–alien warfare or the distant hums of a submarine, I imagine.I feel myself falling through space,all around me is dark,both claustrophobic and endless,a humming contradiction.I must remain completely still,arms locked overhead, face pressed downward:frozen in time in a placewhere time doesn’t existexcept for memories of all theContinue reading “6th Cancerversary”

Birthday Scanxiety

This weekend was my birthday, and I am fortunate to celebrate 35 trips around the sun. It’s certainly not old age (despite what my kids may say!) but after cancer I can appreciate just how special each year is. Not one year is guaranteed even though nobody sits down in the twenties and thinks, “I’mContinue reading “Birthday Scanxiety”