Sunday, January 15, 2012

CANCER IS SO BARBIE!

Maybe someone is comforted by the "BALD AND BEAUTIFUL BARBIE" campaign but I think the thing that makes a woman look beautiful during chemo is her personal resolve to survive.  Not her Barbie eyes on a baldie doll head.
     

I'm GLAM, I am.

Monday, December 5, 2011

SCAN THE MAN

IT'S HOLIDAY TIME!  I'M GETTING ON A PLANE!
GUESS WHAT I GET TO CHOOSE?

RADIATION!
OR HUMILIATION!

I'm pretty frikkin glad I don't have a poop bag no more.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

STUPID, HURTFUL, LAME

THINGS PEOPLE SAY:
STUPID: my odds of being hit by a bus are 1 in 2 million.
my odds of dying of cancer are 1 in 2.

HURTFUL: there is no "false hope."  there is only hope.

it's my book.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

WHACK-A-MOLE

 HURRY, HURRY, STEP RIGHT UP!
TAKE A CRACK AT THE WHACK-A-MOLE!

yes. we're there.  

f* you, cancer. leave my friends alone!  






 

Saturday, April 2, 2011

THE MUSIC LADY!

relief on the medical floor:

music releases anxiety, reduces pain, helps deep breathing.

music is healing

 Laura Sperling, CMP plays alto flute for patients at Georgetown University Hospital.  thank you!

Monday, January 17, 2011

EVERYBODY HERE HAS CANCER

I was freaked out the first time I went to the cancer center.
 And a guy in line was getting upset.
I'm not the only one.

Friday, December 24, 2010

WHO ARE THOSE GUYS?

YOU GET TO MEET LOTS OF PEOPLE AT A TEACHING HOSPITAL:

THE SURGEON, A RESIDENT, AN RN, THE NURSE PRACTITIONER, A TALL GUY, TWO GUYS IN THE DOORWAY, AND A MEDICAL STUDENT.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

F CANCER

MY HAT SAYS "FUCK CANCER"

UNLIKE DC,  WHERE PEOPLE ARE RESERVED, NEW YORKERS SPEAK UP:

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?  AT THE END OF THE DAY
I'M STILL HERE! DOING MY THING, ONE F-BOMB AT A TIME.
CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO BUY A  F*CK CANCER HAT