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Cancer Survivorship & Survivor’s Guilt

December 10, 2014

Dear Fran Drescher #5

  Dear Fran, It’s been a really long time. How have you been? Me? I’ve been a busy, busy bee. I played piano for a Christmas concert last weekend. It was loads of fun. Halfway through Saturday’s performance, as I sat listening to the wonderful music of the other musicians, I couldn’t help but think […]

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August 24, 2013

Still Suffering Survivor’s Guilt

On March 7 and March 8, I recounted how I was dealing with survivor’s guilt. It doesn’t seem to be going away. In fact, sometimes it seems to be getting worse. It hasn’t helped that my Aunt Ann was just told that her cancer is back or that Jonathan’s guidance counselor’s wife also suffered a […]

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March 20, 2013

The Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference

I got up this morning, curled my hair all pretty for once, and applied my makeup carefully; I did not want to look like a frump for my presentation at the Pierce County Cancer Survivorship Conference. I pulled into the parking lot. There was not one space left. I was forced to park down the road, which […]

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March 8, 2013

Survivor’s Guilt?

In my last post, I fretted that I would be plagued by survivor’s guilt for a long, long time. Not one day later, here I am whooping it up with my daughter, Adriana, and my “adopted” daughter, Brittany. Boy, we live on the wild side: I’m eating spaghetti and they’re eating ice cream. The funny thing […]

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March 7, 2013

Survivor’s Guilt

In my last post, I brought up the fact that I’m beginning to have survivor’s guilt. I don’t know exactly when it started, I just know that it seems to be there, all the time, just beneath the surface. At what point does a person shake that off? I wonder. I was discussing the fact that […]

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December 3, 2012

My $1200 Boo-Boo

I grabbed my Bob Marley headphones, my iPod, my Canon, and the camera bag with my extra lens, and headed to the sand dunes. Down on the beach, I snapped picture after picture of the sun as it was going down. Picture 1… snap, picture 2… snap. I couldn’t believe how beautiful it was here […]

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April 23, 2012

What’s Happened To Me?

Tonight, at church, I’m going to practice the guiro with the bell choir… and the conga drum guy…and the cowbell guy. Then, I’m zipping over to the gym to play volleyball for a few hours. When I get home, I’m finishing up my homework (due Wednesday) for the creative writing class. What’s happened to me? […]

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