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Posts tagged “mediport”

Day 58: Worry Dolls

Posted on January 18, 2014

Day 55 and I returned to the classroom for the first time since starting chemotherapy for breast cancer.  I marched across campus double-time, running a few minutes late, my notebook opened to the building and room number scrawled on the ledger pad, my attaché slipping off my shoulder.  As I squinted at the closed double doors of the lecture hall to see if its number matched what I’d written down and tried to assemble the chemo spiel I’d been rehearsing for three days, I heard someone say, “Let’s do this!”  It was my assistant, Andy, who I wasn’t expecting until the second class meeting.  Andy was among the students on whom I’d dropped the cancer bomb in Fiction class last semester.  He knew, and somehow this made it infinitely easier to throw the door back and say, “Hello!”  I did not say “Hello!  My name is Inigo Montoya!” like I’ve always wanted to do, but … some day.

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Tagged: Alien, Breaking Bad, breast cancer, chestburster, Cynthia Hawkins, Heisenberg, mediport, red matter, Ridiculousness, Star Trek, Travolta House

Day 11: Port Authority

Posted on November 29, 2013

chalkboard turkey

How was your Thanksgiving, everyone?  Mine was splendid.  My little sister Alicia prepared the entire Thanksgiving meal because she is made of magic and not the sea monkeys, beet juice, and cow patties I’d always thought she was made of when I was ten.  At some point, pleasantly bloated, post-feast, we all sat down, and the words that should not be spoken fled en masse from my mouth.  All of them.

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Tagged: Black Friday, breast cancer, five point palm exploding heart technique, Kill Bill 2, mediport, Star Wars, Thanksgiving

  

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