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 »
Treatment Day One
Posted in Treatment Day One, tagged cancer and humor, chemo, gay relationships, ovarian cancer, xena and gabrielle on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Treatment Day One The television above the foot of the bed distracts me from the nurse with her intravenous needle. Xena: Warrior Princess is on, as it is every morning on the Oxygen network. The show has become my morning coffee ritual. Roll carefully out of bed, hand against my abdominal bandage. Make coffee. Watch [...]
Free Floating Anxiety
Posted in Free Floating Anxiety, tagged cancer and humor, chemo, gay relationships, ovarian cancer on September 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Free Floating Anxiety Ramona has not come home. She’s two hours late. I fight panic. She’s been in a car accident. She was car jacked. She’s been kidnapped. She’s at the hospital and can’t call me because she’s in a coma and the ER people have no way to contact me. When she was a [...]
Beyond Basic
Posted in Beyond Basic, tagged cancer and comedy, cancer and humor, gay relationships, ovarian cancer on August 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Beyond Basic When we bought our oversized, many pillowed couch – the couch I now spend my recovery days on – the furniture saleswoman described it as “aubergine,” a fancy name for eggplant and an even fancier name for purple. A visitor has yet to enter our home and comment, “What a lovely aubergine couch [...]
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 [...]
