In Ontario, chemotherapy is administered in clinics dedicated to cancer. The waiting area is always crowded with patients and families. All those people are there for…
As I was telling our cancer story in these weekly instalments, the cancer itself rudely interrupted back into our lives. For those of you who…
They say the present frames the past. I am reminded that I am looking back on a cancer journey that has not yet ended. There…
After spending two weeks flat on his back, determined not to move, the physiotherapists advanced on my husband with enthusiasm. His leg had been repaired…
When you think of yourself as healthy — above average healthy, with an above average healthy life style, when a health problem arises, it is…
“When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras.” Theodore Woodward, in regards to medical diagnoses By the time I caught up to James in…
Sometimes a sore spot is just a sore spot. Sometimes denial is your worst enemy. Between August and October of 2014, the insidious cancer was…
“Maybe it will go away” are the five most dangerous words in the English language. Sign in a Medical Office Cancer is insidious. It sneaks…
Chances are, if you are over the age of thirty you have watched someone battle an addiction. I use the term battle loosely — often…
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what…