Her hair is gone now. In only four days, she has lost half of her long, thick red mane. She donates the rest to Locks of Love and shaves her head. She thinks that losing her hair will make her incomprehensibly sad, and yet, it doesn't. She finds a way to rock the G.I. Jane […]
I exhaled deeply before picking up the phone to answer Mr. Exec’s call. Me: Hey. [Pause.] What's up? Mr. Exec: Hello. How are you? Me: Good. We continued to awkwardly exchange pleasantries for a few minutes before Mr. Exec told me why he was calling: I saw your post on Facebook. Me: Uh huh. [I […]
She feels like she’s looking through a kaleidoscope, only no turn of the wheel ends up on a pretty picture. No flowers. No butterflies. No vistas resembling a peacock’s plume. “We can’t give you the easier chemo,” her oncologist says as tears stream down her face. “Why am I finding this out now? Why did […]
I was up in Friendship Heights last week, when I received the call from my oncologist's office. The physician's assistant tried as kindly as she could to break the news to me: So…the lab finally got back to us with the results. You're HER2 positive. [HER2 is one of the most aggressive forms of breast […]
After my Mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1997, we went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital for a second opinion. As we waited in the lobby, we couldn't help but notice that one out of every third or fourth person in the waiting room: Was bald from chemotherapy; Had jaundice (a yellow complexion) from liver […]
I've been thinking a lot about the different hats that I wear. I'm a relationship and sex blogger. I'm the in-house product reviewer for Dascha Boutique and a sexuality educator for Fascinations at Fun Love. I'm a non-practicing attorney who will still talk about the law ad nauseum and answer her former clients' calls at […]