Category Archives: Health
The Trouble I’ve Seen
Eleven years ago today, a ruddy-faced doctor in a white coat took off his glasses and informed me that there was a raging tumor living inside my eyeball. News so strange I had to ask for it to be repeated, … Continue reading
A decade of milestones
Yesterday was my ten-year cancer anniversary. Those who have been in my shoes understand that it’s a day of reflection. A day where you review all the milestones that have occurred in the last decade and wonder what will happen … Continue reading
Rising
Every Monday, I take off my wedding ring and pull my hair back in order to mix, pound, and watch bread rise through the dark oven door. I always need to control something, and my two-year-old never listens. So bread … Continue reading
diamond dust
I am no stranger to eye surgery. I’ve had so many of them you’d think it would be easier just to rip the thing out and replace it with wood puddy. I’m sure all eye cancer survivors are familiar with … Continue reading
pork chops for breakfast
While the rest of the Western world is baking muffins, chomping on triskets, and sucking on popsicles, I’m at home gnawing on a boiled egg. It’s not because I particularly love eggs. It’s just that I’m on a low-carb diet, … Continue reading
no regrets
I’ve been thinking of the concept of fairness. About how we human beings have a certain timeline in our heads about what is right and just. You are born. You struggle and climb and claw your way out of, well, … Continue reading
lucky one
I remember the marble being such a pretty color, peachy with ribbons of coral running through it. It was everywhere. Marble tub. Marble sink. Marble floor. “That’s a lot of stinkin marble,” I thought to myself as I was lying … Continue reading
scratching and hatching
As it turns out, a scratch on one’s eye does feel like salty glass being scraped across an open wound. I bet they teach in torture school. Scratch their eyeballs. That’ll get ‘em talkin. Maybe I was just hormonal, using … Continue reading