Last week, I had dinner with a friend who goes to Haiti often and is headed back any day now to lend a hand. I jokingly told him to bring me back a baby, but I was serious about mothering a child from Haiti, or any country for that matter — if only folks wouldn’t [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘ovarian cancer’
December 21, 2009
CAT scan queen
The test used to detect cancer may also cause it. Little surprise there. In yet another one of life’s twisted schemes, the things that help us often turn out to be the things that hurt us. According to recent reports, radiation from CAT scans is higher than previously thought and could be linked to increased [...]
November 20, 2009
how do heroin addicts do it?
After more than a year of chemotherapy, my precious veins are shot. Those inch-long needles have done some serious damage to my once-healthy blood vessels, and the oncology nurses have informed me that they probably won’t recover. Great. Stupid cancer is leaving a trail of damage in its wake. Before I started treatment in 2008, [...]
