Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, began in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. In the months following treatment, many people who knew what Alex and I went through said to us, “We don’t know how you did it.” ...
Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, occurred in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. Following treatment, I gradually began to understand what Dr. Kaminski’s words had meant during our first meeting all those months earlier. Figuratively, he had said, ...
Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, occurred in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. I'd spent endless hours fantasizing how life would be after treatment ended, and I was ecstatic that it had, but what was I supposed to ...
Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, occurred in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. The last test to hunt for signs of bone cancer came up with a goose egg. Using its astonishing array of tools, medical science has ...
Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, occurred in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. To say that Alex and I were exhausted from eight grueling months of riding the roller coaster of cancer would be an understatement. In the ...
Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, occurred in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. When the treatment that might save my life was scheduled for Sept. 11, 2002, it seemed irreverent to hope for a personal victory on a ...
Readers: The events in these installments, the condensed version of my book, occurred in 2002. To catch up from the beginning, these chronicles start here. September 4, 2002. The past three weeks had been a wild ride of emotions, beginning with the jolt of my second relapse during chemotherapy. Dr. ...
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here. When my eyes opened the morning following my first chemo treatment, I was surprised to find my hair hadn't fallen out overnight. I hadn't tossed my cookies. And I didn't even feel like I might. How anti-climactic can ...
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here. April 8, 2002. I stood in the closet lost in what-ifs and wondering what was appropriate apparel for the occasion of voluntarily turning my own body into a toxic waste dump. A Hazmat suit came to mind.
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here. I'm sure my maiden name—Kurka—predisposed me to cowardice. In Polish, "kurka" means little chicken and the only more appropriate name would be whatever word means big chicken, which is what I have always been when it comes to ...
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here. Of course I never asked Dr. Kaminski the questions I wrote in the "Dear Doctor" letter, nor did he ever say any of the things that Dr. Hammer so eloquently expressed in his "Dear Patient" response. Dr. Kaminski ...
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here.Dear Doctor, Here we are, you and me, our lives connected by cancer. My cancer. Under the circumstances, I’m really glad to have you in my life, and I want our relationship to be very, very long and very, ...
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here. Incurable. My type of lymphoma was incurable. At best, we could expect chemotherapy — my only option at the time — to slow the disease, but for how long was anybody's guess. Sooner or later, it would come ...
Readers: Just joining and want to catch up? These chronicles start here. A few days after the CT scan and biopsy, my husband Alex and I waited in the examining room, still hoping that the results would prove nothing wrong, but a mouthful was wrong. The diagnosis was low-grade, follicular, ...
Readers: Just joining and watch to catch up? These chronicles start here. Just days after cancer called, my husband Alex and I sat in the waiting room at the Lymphoma Clinic at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. It seemed more like a holding pen. Most people looked tired ...
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