The Teddy Roosevelt School of Physical Rehab
I’ve been on a massive fitness kick in the last year, going on a healthy diet for the first time in my life and exercising like a madman, and people frequently ask me why. And I don’t always have a...
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The Teddy Roosevelt School of Rehab Revisited: The Way of the Survivor[ADDENDUM 8:56 EDT: Many thanks to PeregrineKate and the good people of the Monday Night Cancer Club for bringing their discussion...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: The Devil's Path
In the days leading up to November 13th, 2009, we took our son as close to the edge of death and beyond as he had ever been or ever would be again.There’s really no other way to put it. My son, two...
View ArticleA GI Joe tribute on 5 years of cancer survival
Followers of my (extremely infrequent) diary know of my son, Armand, diagnosed with stage-IV cancer at the age of 2 and extremely grim odds of making it to age 3. And you also know of his fight to...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: Long live the new flesh
The images flicker through my memory as half-remembered snatches of youth, a childhood where my church hall was television and my icons were superheroes crushed by fate and rebuilt by mad science."I...
View ArticleThe long-term, ever-revealing nature of pain
It’s odd, sometimes, which parts of the burden turn out to be the heaviest.After all our family has been through, my son’s latest development is the one that came closest to cracking something inside...
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