life and breath: outliving lung cancer » living with lung cancer

I have been feeling rather blue. Deep blue. Indigo. A fatigue that is physical, emotional, spiritual. Not surprising, I suppose. In sixteen days I will turn sixty. Remarkable, really. I never tho...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2019/11/10/funk-ness/

“Just go away, you sticky little bastards.“ I talk to my cancer, and that was this morning’s heartfelt greeting. Yes. After years of hardcore warfare, my body the battle ground, I’m tryin...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2019/03/29/throwing-shade/

It’s an interesting question contingent upon several prepositions. See, I have a problem and the fact that it is a good problem (all things considered), makes it no less daunting. It would app...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2018/09/08/where-do-i-go-from-here/

I don’t do things halfway and when I go low, I go low. Take no prisoners, lethal sort of low. My face couldn’t couldn’t get out of the way soon enough and so I made a minor mess of it. … ...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2018/08/27/bounce/

Yesterday was National Cancer Survivors Day, and I just went meh. Wait–make that hell no. I don’t ‘do’ Survivors Day. My lack of enthusiasm is manifold. First of all, cancer is not a damn...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2018/06/04/words-matter-and-this-ones-gotta-go/

Kumo can run like the wind. Before I knew his given name I was calling him Ghost but felt that Arrow might be a better choice. I learned from the get go that giving chase is of no use–Kumo can ...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2017/03/31/tested/

I have a niece who is enrolled at Savannah College of Art and Design and her family credits me with alerting them to the existence of SCAD in the first place–happy to be of service when I can. ...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2016/04/22/savannah/

Sometimes you just need to get away and away is absolutely where I got to last weekend. Forever friend Melinda and I decamped to NYC for thirty-six hours of culture and inspiration. After checkin...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2016/04/09/a-beautiful-weekend-away-from-it-all/

2016 began rather inauspiciously at a Great Gatsby themed New Year’s Ball. Held in a gorgeous old church, the night looked very promising. However the venue was poorly heat, the drinks insipid ...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2016/01/08/by-its-cover/

You know, it’s been a hell of a year. Enormous change, too much loss and an awful lot of heavy lifting—both emotionally and physically. I am stronger for it all but weary as well. Make that e...

https://outlivinglungcancer.com/2014/07/22/keeping-to-myself/