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All Quiet on the Western Front
Is it ok to write when nothing much is happening? I suppose so. Finally a week with almost nothing in particular to do. A few days without too much drama is a good thing. Mind you, after a fairly adrenalised few months I realise that my version of ‘quiet’ has changed. Still two days at…
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4am
Why is it always 3-4am? I wake up feeling like the night must be over. Like it’s time to get up or start thinking. 4am is the most dangerous time to start death googling so I’m writing to you instead Dear Reader. I know everything I need to know right now. Any further lines of…
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No Unicorns
Hmm orange and pink don’t totally go do they but today I am summoning the sunshine. It’s been a beautiful day but a rough one for side effects. Day four of the drugs and I’m tolerating them pretty well but I think it started to get tougher today. It feels like I am balancing on…
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God’s Waiting Room
I’m really good at waiting. I can amuse myself for hours writing and reading. People watching. I’ve learnt most people’s names in the waiting room by now from sitting and listening to them being called and greeted by the nurses. Stalker. You all help me dear readers as I feel your presence and I feel…
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Silence and Bravery
I’ve been reading Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals. She’s a writer I admire very much but I’d never read these before. A mixture of diary and lectures. Her writing gives me the courage to keep finding words for what is happening and to keep speaking them out loud. We may have stopped saying the word cancer…
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