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The Smallest Flutter of Wings

May 6, 2016admin 11 Comments

Grief can take many forms. In the case of this week’s guest author, Noelle Bickle, it took the form of a ladybug, after her mother’s cancer death, just after Thanksgiving last year. By Noelle Bickle Two days before my mother… Continue Reading →

Cancer, funerals, Grief, Patient Stories cancer, grief, patient stories

Take me as I am

March 22, 2016admin 2 Comments

Our guest author this week is Lisa Reynolds-Jones. Lisa writes about her friend Jenny, who died in 2007. When she first wrote to me to outline Jenny’s story she said that she wanted to die on her own terms: “Dying… Continue Reading →

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Possibility Of Death

March 14, 2016admin 6 Comments

Guest author Gwen Tuinman contemplates that moment we must all dread, when the world slows on its axis and time seems to grind to a stop. by Gwen Tuinman The doctor reviewed my file while I waited on a plastic… Continue Reading →

Cancer, Patient Stories cancer, patient stories
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