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Posts tagged “acupuncture”

Day 43: Electricity

Posted on January 3, 2014

When I spoke to Jody on the phone she encouraged my confidence in her acupuncture services because she used the word “evil” when I mentioned “cancer” and “chemo.”  Last week, I had … a vision?  I don’t want to say the word “vision” because it makes me think of Dirty Steve in Young Guns warbling out at half-speed, “Did you see the size of that chicken?”  I was dozing off at any rate, and I imagined without trying (okay, call it a vision if you want) that chemo was a lanky woman in a cheap feather boa leaning on an elbow, flicking the nails on one raised hand together, looking back at me with her brows aslant in mock pity.  I’ve worried that my animosity toward the chemo might manifest itself more deeply, might make my body resist the work of the chemo every two weeks.  So I’ve been trying not to see chemo as evil at all, but when Jody made the connection I thought, this is the acupuncturist for me.

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Tagged: acupuncture, Annie, breast cancer, Carol Burnett, chi, Dirty Steve, Frankenstein, James Whale, Miss Hannigan, monsters, qi, Sean Young, Young Guns

Day 35: Mommie Dearest

Posted on December 25, 2013

On Day 30, Joe escorted me to chemo treatment number two, and before the hook-up we visited with the oncologist who asked me about my behavior, sleep habits, and mood. “Fine,” I said.  “Pretty good.”

And to Joe, she asked, “Is that right or is she kicking butts and taking names?”

“Oh yeah,” Joe said.

I slapped him on the thigh. “She means am I being really mean to everybody at home,” I told him.

“No, you’re, like, feisty with a good attitude about getting through the cancer and all. That’s what it means.”

“No it doesn’t!”

“Yes it does. Taking names. Kicking butt.”

“No!”

“Maybe she’s just a little cranky at home,” the doctor said in a kind of whisper, writing something down.

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Tagged: acupuncture, breast cancer, cancer survivor, Cynthia Hawkins, Faye Dunaway, green tea, Joan Crawford, Life Over Cancer, meditation, Mommie Dearest, orcs, poached eggs, The Returned, toast, turbans, What does the fox say, yoga

  

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