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  • Time is On My Side

    One year ago tomorrow, I had surgery to remove the tumor on my pancreas. It seems not that long ago. I remember almost everything, from the sleepless night before, and the post-surgery morphine haze, to the rogue visit with Matt to other hospital floors, and the week of unrelenting day and night visits from nurses…

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  • Faith

    One of the biggest struggles during this cancer ordeal has been my relationship with faith. Not faith in a higher power. But faith in my doctors. It’s been especially challenging since my surgery nine months ago. I am in “surveillance” mode now. Every three months, I get a CT scan that looks for visual evidence…

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  • Survivor

    We had a work retreat recently, and one of the activities involved writing ten characteristics of yourself on ten stickers and tacking them to the front of your shirt. Then we mingled with colleagues, discussed each other’s attributes, removed a couple of stickers with each conversation, and mingled more until we were down to one…

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