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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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  • Walking on Sunshine

    Those close to me know that I’m not given to excitement. Happy, yes. Content, of course. Blissful, I can do that. But today, I was smiling ear-to-ear after meeting with my oncologist. As I mentioned in the last post, I came out of surgery with a clean pathology report. But I never really understood what…

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  • I Don’t Have Cancer

    The pathology report came back from after my surgery, and there are no signs of cancer anywhere around my digestive tract. “That’s about as good a report as you can get,” Dr. K said. It’s taken seven months to be able to say this: I don’t have cancer.

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