Self Image and the Ostomate
I was with a young woman when I found out that Sandra Day O’Connor had died. “Who is that?” she asked. “She was the first female Justice on the Supreme Court,” I replied. She told me that she was embarrassed not to know that, but that her life is full with babies, work, and staying […]
As many of you already know, in January of 1993, a spaghetti-like adhesion strangled a loop of my small intestines called the ileum. Close to death, emergency surgery resected almost three inches of the gangrenous bowel. Recovering from surgery became the easy part. Unfortunately, a few days after being released from the hospital, I was […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the event I attended for The Pap Corps. The Pap Corps raises a huge amount of funds for cancer research, and we all feel grateful they are as successful as they are. The event was incredible, highlighting Survivors/Thrivers treated at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center through the University […]