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    My Albatross

    APRIL 2, 2012 10:38AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, surgery, recurrence, physicians, albatross

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1664 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    My Month of Denial

    JANUARY 2, 2012 11:00AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, memoir, surgery, baldness, hair loss, denial, surgical port, metaphors, meryl streep

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 832 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Walking The Faultline To Recovery

    MARCH 3, 2011 11:07AM

    By Kevin Army


    Topics: surgery, ducks, not really gay/lesbian but it's there somewhere, ok, gay/lesbian, hayward fault, earthquakes, earthquake country, lake temescal, oakland, photography, health, getting better

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 2362 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    I’m Never the Sick One

    AUGUST 20, 2010 5:27PM

    By CoyoteOldStyle


    Topics: hospital, surgery, cholecystectomy, gall bladder, medical insurance, medicine, coyoteoldstyle, emergency medicine, george clooney wasn't there, health, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 4158 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Repeal? I take that rather personally!

    MARCH 22, 2010 9:58PM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: cancer, chordoma, health, cary tennis, surgery, recovery

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 5392 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Update: I've been approved!

    MARCH 22, 2010 1:49PM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: cancer, chordoma, health, cary tennis, surgery, recovery

    • Editor's Pick
    • 52 Ratings
    • 10139 Views
    • 86 Comments
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    I'm filing a grievance with Blue Shield -- and you can, too!

    MARCH 19, 2010 12:36PM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: cancer, chordoma, health, cary tennis, surgery, recovery, blue shield, insurance company, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 1767 Views
    • 56 Comments
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    Historyland! - Better Than the Real Thing

    MARCH 11, 2010 2:39PM

    By Jeff Brawer


    Topics: history, myth, recreation, vesuvius, pompeii, herculaneum, old sturbridge village, plimoth plantation, surgery, dentistry, smallpox, vermin, hygiene, cinema, jean-luc godard

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 3614 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Imaginary Cary Admits to Hurting the Poodle

    MARCH 1, 2010 9:09PM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: men, poodle, pets, dogs, recovery, surgery, cary tennis, health, chordoma, cancer

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    • 20 Ratings
    • 3325 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    "Dead people don't talk."

    JANUARY 31, 2010 2:17AM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: cancer, chordoma, health, cary tennis, surgery, recovery, marlon brando, the fugitive kind, sidney lumet, melvin howell tennis, jr.

    • Editor's Pick
    • 59 Ratings
    • 4845 Views
    • 62 Comments
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    I do not really know what is happening to me.

    JANUARY 25, 2010 1:42AM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: robert musil, thomas bernhard, haruki murakami, surgery, chordoma, pain medication, cancer, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 6878 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Small Town Vasectomy, Where Everybody Knows Your Pain

    SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 10:49AM

    By Walter Blevins


    Topics: vasectomy pain, grocery store, kick in the groin, kick in the balls, vasectomy humor, algona, kossuth county hospital, small towns, iowa, vasectomy, surgery, outpatient, hyvee, kids, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 3812 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    Name Your Own Credit Card Rate!

    DECEMBER 15, 2008 10:53PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: food, surgery, borrowers, lenders, government, discount rate, prime rate, credit card rates, credit cards, debt, consumer credit, interest, interest rates, high interest rates

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