Category: Cancer

I. Waiting for the other shoe to drop, living life in half-breaths, afraid to put my whole weight on each day—– insurance against disappointment. Then,…

Some people sing in the shower, others croon while cooking, but Emma, let light notes slip softly while walking me down the hall. She brought…

I. It was some other man’s body: another man’s scar, another man’s ostomy, another man’s pain. Not mine. Not the man I knew before. Where…

The last shred of modesty I managed to preserve, was safeguarded by the Johnny Shirt covering my backside. But in that short span of time,…

One bright and sunny day in May, my belly was distended. Go quickly to the ER room, what E had recommended. I went on down…

If I could write a thousand thank you’s on sheets of paper your favourite color, long enough to tie a bow around the earth, it…

News of cancer first comes written on the lives of distant aunts and uncles, then parents, eventually sisters and brothers, and finally friends. It is…