The Monday Before Surgery Mid-weekend, in one frightening shared epiphany, Ramona and I remembered our lack of legal status. “We don’t have a single piece of legal paper to document our” – I counted on my fingers – “twelve year relationship.” “Our mortgage?” Ramona suggested as a joke. But we both knew, in a medical [...]
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The Monday Before Surgery
Posted in The Monday Before Surgery, tagged cancer and humor, domestic partnership, gay relationships, marriage equality, same-sex marriage on December 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Abby
Posted in Abby, tagged cancer and comedy, cancer and humor, domestic partnership, gay relationships, ovarian cancer on May 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Abby Ramona arrives in my hospital room just as Dad is leaving. She gives him a kiss. He says, “Goodbye Hon” to me and is gone. She brings me a large, iced mocha with whipped cream. Now that the surgery is over, I can resume my caffeine intake and I choose to do so in [...]
