July 2011
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“People say I’m lazy dreaming my life away,
Well they give me all kinds of...”
– - John Lennon, Watching the Wheels
Ever hear a song you have heard countless times, only this time you really listen to the words? That is what happened to me today.
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On Thin Ice
Only four weeks removed from her last dose of chemo, Sereen went to the hospital for her first routine CT scan. This was also the first CT scan since last December, two days before the surgery that removed the three pound Wilms tumor. Anxiety pre-scan (i.e “scanxiety”) started in earnest for me about 48 hours prior. We had decided that my wife along with her father (retired...
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“It occurs to me that scans may be the only area of modern life in which progress...”
– Bruce Fieler in his article Scanxiety June of this year in Time magazine.
My daughter has her first CT scan post completion of her chemo regiment tomorrow. The blessing is because she is 3 years old, scanxiety is limited to Mom and Dad, at least in the run up to the scan.
I pray for sameness.
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