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I hate tumors

See that black and white link to your right? The one that reads I hate tumors? It leads to an essay I wrote for a girl named Sara, an editor for JANE magazine. I don’t know Sara. She just called me one day, out of the blue, after finding my blog. We talked as I simultaneously tried to entertain my crazy little Florida boys and she walked the busy streets of Manhattan. Sara told me all about her best friend Heather who was diagnosed with cervical cancer and then shockingly died of the disease. Sara wrote a story about Heather that appeared in JANE and also started a website — it’s called I hate tumors.

At the time of Sara’s call, she was collecting essays from others who, for their own personal reasons, hate tumors. She would post them all on her site, she told me, and she wanted an essay from me. And so I wrote one for her.

My essay has been posted on Sara’s website for some time now. I just haven’t said much about it — mostly because there are a few edits that need to be made and I’d hoped to tell you about it once it was in perfect form. But I realized today that my words do nothing sitting quietly on a site if no one knows about them. So when you have a few extra moments, click on that black and white link to your right and read about my friend Amy.

Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer at about the same time as me. She died 15 months later.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm and is filed under Death & dying, My story, Resources, Survivors. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “I hate tumors”

  1. Penny says:
    7/14/2007 at 2:17 pm

    Hello, found your blog today and find it moving and informative. thank you for sharing all you’ve been though. I’ve recently been diagnosed with DCIS with microinvasion. Biopsy shows all contained, margins thin but clear. Waiting to be scheduled for a lumpectomy (to get better margins) and sentinal node biopsy, radiation, and drugs for five years. Anixous to get started so I can move along. Started my own blog and invite you to take a look at http://www.pennyssally.blogspot.com. Sending my best for you and all who face the challenges.

  2. Alicia says:
    3/8/2008 at 1:50 pm

    Hi. I was in a bar last night in Manhattan and I saw a posting in the women’s bathroom about I Hate Tumors and the website that shares Amy’s srong fight against cancer. Today I tried to log onto the site, but it doesn’t seem to be up anymore. Is this true? I’m not sure if you know, but when I googled the site, your blog came up.

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