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When I got the cancer diagnosis, with the shock of it I sort of separated from my body. It is protective, to not be too “in” your body when terrible things are happening to it.
A Safe Distance
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Tag Archives: Breast cancer
Mastectomy: Another Kind of Damage by Erica Sternin
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A canvas repeatedly slashed, A national treasure ruined beyond repair…. Some fear the repair has ruined the painting. Questions raised: why it took so long, cost so much.
Tickling a Fish
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tickle by Caroline – flickr creative commons
Being diagnosed with two cancers was like being thrown into a tornado. One minute everything is fine, the next: terror. Continue reading
Leap Day
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I’ve been asked, What will you do with the wee extra bit of time granted – this extra day ? What I know is that the dishes still need to be done, the mortgage paid, the dog walked, the … Continue reading
Left Breast by Erica Sternin
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Flaccid, professionally palpated twice a year, searching for tumors, It is stroked rhythmically, as needed, To sweep pooled lymph fluid toward a new delta. The nipple dares not responds to pleasure. With indrawn breath, it lays low, shrinking from the … Continue reading
Meat Body
Photo: Richard Masoner
Who is this “I?” Surely not the meat body, Continue reading
The Little Things by Erica Sternin
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Our library has two floors, with sixteen stairs between them. “Nothing That is Not For My Good Can Enter Here” I chant Sixteen times, pushing my golden force field past my finger tips, As I rise, nauseous, to serve the … Continue reading
Food + Creativity
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My nickname is McGyver and I’m not much of a cook, so this isn’t going to be a cooking story.
The Hug
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The week after my first chemotherapy treatment I was working again at the front desk, the “Info” desk, at the library.
Food + Love
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He cooked for me. Every day of cancer treatment. The fridge was full of tasty, nutritious soups and quinoa salad stored in glass (we’d thrown out all plastic within a month of diagnosis, along with the Teflon coated cookware) containers. … Continue reading
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