Coping with Women's Cancers
This is the teacup (from China) that my childhood friend, Sandee Kline, used the last time she visited my house on October 18, 2009. She died of leukemia less than a year later. Read her story here. An interesting associated story that meant a lot to Sandee is here. Please vote for Sandee’s cup in… Continue reading My Friend’s Story – Leukemia: Please Vote for Her Story to Raise Awareness of Blood Cancers
Yesterday I wrote about my one-year “to the day” anniversary of being diagnosed with uterine (endometrial) cancer. Today is my one-year “to the date” marker. And I am lucky. Watching the evening news last night, November 3, I saw three stories about people who have lived lives that were, yes, challenged by cancer, but more importantly were full of… Continue reading My Story – Uterine (Endometrial) Cancer: P.S. to Yesterday’s Post–Life on the Infinite Walkway
Happy Jewish New Year to Old Friends & New Family September 24 was the first day of Rosh Hashanah this year, which ends at sundown tonight. As noted in my 9/24/14 post, it was also my 62nd birthday—the first adult birthday I have been truly grateful for. Sadly, my childhood friend, Sandee, did not live… Continue reading My Friend’s Story – Leukemia: Rosh Hashanah & Remembrance
All things exist . . . somewhere in the misty, mysterious spiral of time. Five years ago today, August 15, 2009, a Saturday, I met my sister for the first time after a 50-year separation. My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion tells it all. A year later, on that same Saturday, I visited my friend for… Continue reading Life Giveth, Life Taketh Away . . . and It Giveth Again
On September 15, 1959, my sister was born, “died,” and started a new life. On August 12, 2009, she returned to her origins. By that September 2009, the month in which both Vicki Sue’s (on the 15th) and my (on the 24th) birthdays fall, Susan Mary had found her birth family and a part of herself… Continue reading My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Epilogue–The Wonders of Sisterhood & Synchronicity
How do you tell your 79-year-old mother that she now has three children–and two more grandchildren—to buy birthday, Christmas, and Chanukah gifts for? To read the full post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 4–Reunion
“And . . . oh my God. You have a mother!” That’s when it hit me: who was going to tell “our” mother?! To read the full post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 3–Communion
After the chills shot through my body, I had just enough time to say, “Oh my God, that’s my sister!” before we were instructed to put away all electronic devices. The plane was taking off. To read the complete post, please click: My Sister’s Story – Adoption & Reunion: Part 2–Recognition
The Patient Path 