Health & Healing

Life really isn’t like a merry-go-round at all. It is more like a roller coaster. But dammit, grandma, not all of us like it.

In some circles, there is subtle judgment that implies I did something to cause my lymphedema. Frankly, sometimes it’s not subtle at all.

The size of my tumor and a couple of other things were the determining factors for post-surgery treatment. I'm well aware every time I go in that this is not the case for many of the people who are sitting next to me.

Do I just show up at work the next morning in a wig? I played it out in my mind and didn’t like it.

I was weirdly calm, even proud of myself for not screaming or overturning medical thingamabobs and running down the hall in the crappy, threadbare gown.