I wish this blog post would reach billions of eyes in shock, sadness and horror, but it won’t. Nothing new or earth-shattering for the masses. It’s just another post that joins too many others with the same story line: Cancer taking over a loved one’s life (literally & figuratively). That loved one in my world?…
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This is my mom, Leslie Lehrman, in 2001. Hanging out in Hawaii with her husband, Bob, and his family. Back then, the thing my mom used to complain about was gaining weight. Oh, and that perpetual problem I recently discovered goes back to her elementary days: Her HAIR! She NEVER likes her hair. Never. While…
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Dawson: “Welcome to Family Feud. Let’s start with the Windrum family over here.” “Ok, first question: What do you get when you mix the holidays with cancer?” Windrum Family: “Let’s go with…a nightmare?” Dawson: (Chuckle). “Well, let’s see. Survey says: (DING!) One chaotic Christmas cocktail, and not of the alcoholic kind. That would definitely be…
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My mom just called with her CT scan results. She said, “The results came back 95% good, but there are some questionable areas.” She said there is nothing showing in the lung, but a couple of lymph nodes have increased in size. In radiology-speak: Interval increase lymph nodes right supraclavicular region and mediastinum posterior to…
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