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|Bad News
Written by Drusilla on October 15th, 2014
(Dictated By Dru to Art on Oct. 11)
What do you do when the news is bad? You’re having a day that began in a fairly normal way: Juice, pills, cottage cheese. Then you get into a car and are driven to see your oncologist. Somehow you felt the bad news was coming. It was the prickle of hairs on the back of your neck, a tightness of breathing that you can’t explain. The news is only slightly less difficult to hear when it’s from your favorite doctor.
Filed under Cancer, Life Matters, Uncategorized | Tags: Bad News, cancer, Drusilla Campbell, Hospice, Terminal
Cancer and I Have a Short but Serious Conversation
Written by Drusilla on August 10th, 2014
(Dictated by Dru to Art on 10 Aug 2014)
Last night I enjoyed a rare, nearly full-night’s sleep. It was bliss. I threw away two of my four sitting-up-to-sleep pillows and slept on my side, which is an under-appreciated experience.
Filed under Family & Friends, Life Matters, Uncategorized | Tags: cancer, Conversations, Garden
Urgent Care
Written by Drusilla on June 16th, 2014
Pneumonia.
I’d been trying to ignore my symptoms for a couple of weeks: lack of energy, no creativity, a pain under my wing when I coughed. Then my teeth started to ache and I called the dentist, imagining abscesses and root canals. He proclaimed my teeth just fine but maybe my sinuses weren’t?
Who knew that we have sinuses in our gums?
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Filed under Life Matters, Uncategorized | Tags: Health Care, Pneumonia, Urgent Care