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Friday, December 19, 2008
Apologies, the fun has been beaten out of me. Maybe another time.
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It's a re-occuring dream I've had since childhood. I'm still learning to sleep all the way through it. It goes like this. I'm sitting in a doctor's office with a cat in my lap. The cat is wearing a...
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The thing trying to kill me is the size of a grapefruit. A wrong turn of biology. My body becoming its own traitor. I went to bed and the world was a normal place. I read a chapter of Paper Towns and I...
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I'm looking at my insides. The doctor is pointing at my kidneys. The right kidney is normal. The lima bean shape of every biology textbook I can ever remember. The left kidney is something else. The...
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Some things I already know. The doctor might waltz with the words like undifferentiated mass, but I know what I have. From looking at the scans of my kidney I can feel the cancer. It's like watching a...
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These are the things I think about when I'm trying not to think. I think breakfast is the reason I never became a cowboy. Cowboys don't eat cereal. Cowboys eat hoop snake with fried cactus, thin...
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I tell my parents about the mass on my kidney. At first my father is quiet. Then he's angry with me. Then he's angry at everything. Then he grabs his car keys and leaves. Minutes later I'm watching...
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Monday, October 05, 2009
My sister made the mistake of ignoring her inner procrastinator and bought an early Halloween costume for her two-year-old son. My nephew is fixated with Elmo but the only Elmo costume was a size too...
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I'm beginning to feel like a specimen in a petri dish. I've been injected, dyed, x-rayed, probed, scanned, and medically fondled. I might've enjoyed the fondling if the lights were dimmer, but I'm...
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