The monsoon that I created by the mere action of bringing my mother to Dana Farber on a Monday, continued for days after. And it was on one of those torrential rainy days that I spent the majority of my time laying on the couch watching Desperate Housewives reruns and allowing Cory to make everyone [...]
Tags: girl time, Grace, hair cut, school bus, time
Sunday was the 20th anniversary of my 18th birthday and was non-descript in every way. It was cloudy and rainy, uneventful and bland. I had no interest in celebrating this sideshow of a year and spent the day being the general pleasant, arm-flopping nusiance that K has come to expect. Until… until… K was at [...]
Tags: chaplain, Dana Farber, ipad, oprah
Friday, I woke up to one of those sentences that no parent should ever wake up to. No, not “We’ve decided we all want to be homeschooled by you and we’ve picked out a conservative, Bible-based curriculum that has piqued our interest.” Or “We’d like to spend our summer interning for the Young Republicans.” Or [...]
Tags: Jack, pill, poison control
There hasn’t been much going on lately that extends past me laying on the couch, sighing, and raising my arms up towards the ceiling and then letting them flop down hard and lifeless, over and over and over again until K comes by and asks if there’s anything he can do for me. I then [...]
Thursday was my follow-up appointment where I was absolutely sure the doctor was going to tell me that my right ovary was, in fact, actually a Cucumis melo (Cantaloupe-look who’s been on Wikipedia today!). I arrived and the nurse ushered me right into the exam room. Within a minute or so, I could hear my [...]
Tags: hysterectomy, menopause, ovary
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