Chemotherapy

All my traveling makes my husband jealous All my traveling makes my husband jealous

He seems to believe that when I travel I must be sleeping with my boss.
By Cary Tennis Sep 4, 2008

  • A friend is doing chemo. What should I say?

    We're mostly online friends, and I'm kind of shy. I care but do not want to intrude.
    By Cary Tennis February 15, 2008

  • This is my brain on chemo

    My breast cancer treatment left me in a mental fog. As more of us survive cancer, will our post-chemo problems spawn a new branch of medicine?
    By Susan Mitchell May 14, 2007

  • A nauseating ruling

    Clarence Thomas says marijuana has no medical use. Maybe he'd like to try my cancer
    By Dan Shapiro May 15, 2001

  • "Mom's Marijuana"

    When I was diagnosed with cancer, my mother just said yes to growing 11-foot pot plants in her backyard garden.
    By Dan Shapiro November 30, 2000

  • I've got breast cancer and I don't want to live

    I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope!
    By Cary Tennis March 8, 2007

  • Humanitarian aid

    Tomorrow, he would be sterile; today he needed to collect his sperm. And I had to teach him how to do it.
    By Dan Shapiro November 3, 2000

  • The cord-blood controversy

    First we were supposed to eat the placenta. Now we're supposed to freeze it.
    By Alix Christie July 17, 2000

  • Born to pop pills

    I have a well-chosen capsule for every occasion.
    By Elissa Schappell April 20, 2000

  • Beyond dinner

    Cooking for pain, for loss, for heartache, for life.
    By Susan Straight January 19, 2000

  • "The Red Devil"

    A woman with cancer rediscovers her body through a passionate love affair.
    By Katherine Russell Rich November 8, 1999

  • The other woman

    I can't wish she were dead; she may be dying.
    By Jane Underwood November 4, 1999

  • My Mother, the disaster

    When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, of course I came out to help. But I didn't expect her to seduce the doctor.
    By Laurel Touby August 30, 1999

  • Triumph of the cure

    Lance Armstrong beat testicular cancer and then won the Tour de France. Was it a miracle or is he a poster boy for the power of modern medicine?
    By Arthur Allen July 29, 1999

  • The last waltz

    A dying woman calls her community together to thank it, to say goodbye -- and to dance.
    By Anne Lamott December 23, 1998

  • Word by Word

    Spiritual Chemotherapy by Anne Lamott
    By Anne Lamott February 13, 1997
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