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Summertime
Summertime, and the living is easy. Sam Cooke said it, well, sang it actually, a long time ago. The fish were jumpin’ and the cotton was high. The girl he was singing to had a daddy who was rich and a...
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The battle of the K tape
In addition to battling cancer and a nosocomial infection, I’ve also been busy battling plantar fasciitis. mayoclinic.com The PF preceded the BC, and while not as nasty–and certainly not...
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As if the tornado wasn’t bad enough…
I feel a weird dichotomy of emotion when a friend hears about a rare and hard-to-treat infection and thinks of me. On one hand, it’s nice that my friends are the sort of people who know what’s going on...
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It’s that time of year again
Summer in Texas means a few things: happy kids, hot & humid days, and baseball All Stars. Texas is a baseball powerhouse in general, and our neck of the woods is no different. We’re right down the...
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At the ballpark, again
Last summer was pretty bad for me and my family. It started innocently enough, with a bilateral mastectomy at age 40 on May 13th, and while I healed quickly and nicely from that, it all went downhill...
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girls’ trip
Once upon a time, in a city far, far from Houston, there was a group of young-ish women. All had relocated from every corner of the country with young kids in tow to help fulfill their husbands’ dream...
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Ice, ice baby
Pagophagia sounds like one of those words Lucy spouted off in A Charlie Brown Christmas. You remember the scene, in which Charlie Brown pays a call to Lucy’s psychiatric booth (The Doctor Is Way In),...
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Change of plans
Yesterday was pretty crazy. We were stranded Sunday night in Boston because of weather and heavy air traffic in the New York area, and had to spend the night in a hotel. We made the best of it, but...
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Pink party!
The only thing missing from this party was my cancer. HA! It was a great party (especially since the cancer — and its nasty friend mycobacterium — were nowhere to be found). Last year I had one foot in...
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World Cancer Day
Today is World Cancer Day. This year’s theme is debunking myths and erasing stigmas attached to cancer. While I’m all for the debunking and erasing, I’m not at all sure how to feel about cancer having...
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