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Day One
I’m waiting to schedule an appointment with an oncologist, any oncologist, and it turns out that the backlog of new people trying to schedule appointments with oncologists is so great it takes days for...
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Day 3: The Rodeo
I put on my prettiest dress to go have a PET scan done at the radiologist’s office. Partly because I have to teach a class afterwards, but mostly because last time I went to a radiologist’s office I...
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Day 5: Papercraft
Sometime around four a.m. my eyes flutter open and I decide I need to organize. I need to make lists and email people back and grade manuscripts and maybe shower. And ingest some antioxidants. I...
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Day 7: Free Dive
Day seven and I’m beginning to think the big guy upstairs wasn’t too happy with the joke I told three weeks ago about my church’s gluten-free communion bread and the Body of Christ being worth half a...
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Day 11: Port Authority
How was your Thanksgiving, everyone? Mine was splendid. My little sister Alicia prepared the entire Thanksgiving meal because she is made of magic and not the sea monkeys, beet juice, and cow...
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