My father is dead. He has been dead seventeen years, ten months and six days. Yesterday was his birthday. He was sixty-nine when he died — the same age as David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Remembering my father I went in the basement to look for photographs of my father. Evidence of his life. On …
Cancer
Lets cover 1 year old Ryder The Fighters Hospital walls with Christmas Cards and Drawings
Lets cover Ryder The Fighter's hospital walls with birthday and Christmas cards and drawings! Ryder is fighting cancer at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston Texas. Ryder was diagnosed with AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia about six months ago, on May 15th, 2015. After several rounds of chemo, …
An appointment I don’t like to make – my annual mammogram
I kept telling myself I would call tomorrow to make my appointment for my mammogram. And now it has been eight months. I didn't want to think about it. I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.” ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind I called …