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Aviate, Navigate, Communicate: What Hospitals Can Learn from Pilots

“Could I have some water?” Gary bent his head closer. Apparently, my husband couldn’t hear me. I couldn’t remember ever being so thirsty,...

How to Tell Your Kid You Have Cancer: 7 Things You Need to Know

The hardest part of cancer? That’s a loaded question, but telling my kid about it ranks up there at the top of that list. Lauren had just...

Fingers on My Breast, Questions on My Mind

While my doctor’s fingers massaged my breasts and cradled my hard, almond-sized lump, we had a peculiar conversation. She was from the...

The Luck of the Draw

Through the unlikeliest of circumstances, I found myself in a first class seat on a flight to Guatemala this week. They actually served...

Teaching an Old Drug New Tricks: The Role of Ketamine in Depression and Breast Cancer

“No fresh flowers,” my doctor said. “Avoid salad. No uncooked food. And don’t bring visitors home.” Treatment for breast cancer took...

Short, Striped & Revealing: the Worst New Year's Eve Dress Ever

On New Year’s Eve, I put on a gown. A short blue and white striped number, it tied at the waist and opened in the front. My little...

Breast Cancer Stole My Bling

I missed that ring. And even though I told myself it didn't matter, it did.

I Wouldn't Give My Right Arm

I’m pretty good at handling cosmic injustices – cancer, two burned down houses, my mom’s Alzheimer’s, and my dad’s Myasthenia Gravis. My...

Gary Buys a Sandwich

A baby carrot crossed my threshold. Let’s face it: carrots aren’t supposed to look like that – perfect identical oblong shapes prone to...

The Dodgers, Big Bolts, Breast Cancer, and Me

After the fifth inning, I found myself caught off guard. I’d just gone to the kitchen to make popcorn, and when I came back, fifty...

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