It is still September. It is still Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Our color is not pink. Our color is teal. My friend Christie Buckner died at age 39. My April 2010 post about her on Politics Daily prompted so many reader letters that I wrote a followup quoting from them. Christie, somewhere there’s a memorial [...]
Posts Tagged ‘symptoms’
It Is Still September. Not Pink. Teal!
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged awareness, christie buckner, ovarian, symptoms, teal on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Man Who Saved My Life
Posted in Cancer, tagged ovarian, remission, steve buie, survivor, symptoms, verda hunter on June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
[updated July 5, 2011] Today I got a little emotional at my annual checkup. Come with me on the way-back machine to August 9, 2001, when severe abdominal pain sent me to the emergency room: “Everything Changed,” originally published in The Kansas City Star in 2002. On call that night about ten years ago was Dr. [...]
The Oncologist and Her Ghosts
Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged oncologist, ovarian, poem, survival rate, symptoms on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Oncologist and Her Ghosts by Donna Trussell Her nightmares are blizzards. Wind swallows words, and faces freeze beneath ice and snow. She wakes with a start. She rises, lies down, comforts herself with memories of another time before cities, before textbooks before patients who smiled and joked and died. No matter what she did, [...]
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