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  • The Great Pumpkin

    We’re calling it the Great Pumpkin (thank you, Kim!). It’s starts off as a grapefruit-sized ball of chemo chemical attached to my port in my chest. I wear it for two days as the chemicals drip slowly into my body. When the ball is empty, I get it disconnected, and then I am free from…

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  • Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop

    Mixed feelings today. Excited to finally be attacking this bastard tumor. Anxious about the experience. The injection clinic is nothing like I imagined. I had conjured up an image of a serene, quiet and low-lit (if sterile and institutional) room with rows of patients in recliners. Some reading, some resting, others on their phones or…

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