Just Susan

doctors are people too

below is my personal story

Provision:

our pets’ heads aren’t falling off. What a week. What a month. What a year. Still, my lungs keep breathing. The sun keeps shining. It has been a difficult year at our house to say the least. Difficult for Jason’s health – obviously.…

The Art of Cancer

In a prior post, you learned about my science-nerd side. (Click here if you missed it.) But if you really know me, then you know I have an artsy side, too. Music. Photography. Paint. Stage. Writing! I’m really not picky. While most of…

Into the (un)Known

What humans fear the most is the unknown. Or so I think. The unknown cause of his odd symptoms in the spring was frustrating, but that frustration disappeared when the tumor was found. The unknown as we awaited the official tissue diagnosis in…

The Waiting Room

There’s a middle-aged guy who just sat down in the chairs in front of me. The chairs in this part of the waiting room are in rows, so his back is to me. He’s wearing a white baseball cap, a gray plaid button-up…

Debriefing

6 weeks ago it was September. Now it’s October. Football season was just beginning. Now it’s ending. The leaves were green. Now they’re red. Fall baseball was starting. Now it’s over. Quinn was 9. Now she’s 10. We were the new residents at…

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