Tag Archives: cancer

What can you possibly say?

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Cinnwriter

What do you say to a friend who has told you that she has just learned that she has four months to live? I wrote about my co-worker who was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma shortly after giving birth to her second … Continue reading →

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Facing Mortality

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Cinnwriter

Life events can have a profound effect.  We all know that.  But even the little things…events that we hear about others can change us in very profound ways.  That is the way it was for me.  How many times have … Continue reading →

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Fragile

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Cinnwriter

     She was my wife’s mother, but more importantly she was a human being.  None of us forgot that, even as the disease caused her clothes to hang loosely, her head to require a wig, and her speech to be … Continue reading →

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