Cancer: A Retrospective

Cancer: A Retrospective

This post has been a long time coming. At this writing, it has been a little over two years and nine months since I was first diagnosed with melanoma. Treatment involved: ~ 2 general anesthetic surgeries within 2 weeks of each other. The first a procedure to remove a...
Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine

Primum Non Nocere is Latin for ‘first do no harm,’ a guiding principle for physicians that, whatever the intervention or procedure, the patient’s well-being is the primary consideration.[i] That entire sentence above is reproduced in its entirety from the website...

Decisions, Decisions

Instead of writing, today I spent the afternoon with a friend. She is at a crossroads and ready to make the decision to change her life. Over iced tea and California rolls, we discussed what it feels like when your job has become a toxic pool; where you can barely...

Mother, may I…

Moms give us life, and they also teach us how to live. There’s the heartfelt stuff, and the truly gushing moments at graduations, weddings and births. But the real lessons?  These are in the mundane day-to-day admonishments, chore assignments, scoldings, and...