What Kind Do You Have?
brain
skin
bone
liver
lung
colon
breast
bladder thyroid stomach
Hodgkin's non-Hodgkin's Kaposi's leukemia
pancreatic
oral
cervical
ovarian
uterine
vaginal
prostate
testicular
carcinoma sarcoma fluid-borne
common rare detectable inoperable curable treatable hard to find
invasive noninvasive disfiguring malignant benign
advanced contained out of control spreading
NED recurrent
caught in time cured in remission progressive
metastatic life-threatening
metastatic life-threatening
stage 1. . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4
in-between stage late stage end stage over stage
I hold my breath for the day they add:
heart
Copyright 2009 Maureen E. Doallas. All Rights Reserved.
Note:
NED is an acronym meaning No Evidence of Disease.
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3 comments:
This is writing through pain.
Thank you for this poem, Maureen. A very dear friend of mine had a double mastectomy last year. I was visiting her awhile ago at their lake house and she told me how she would walk in the woods and ask God to give her strength. "I don't want to be without breasts," she said. "And I am."
Your poem reminded me of my friend. Beautiful. Courageous. A loving heart.
Hugs
Louise
Shouldn't this be shared on the OC?
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