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Annoying Thing About Cancer #24

The hold music.  When one has cancer one needs to schedule a lot of things – doctor’s appointments, mainly, but also tests, procedures, referral recommendations… the list goes on and on.  And since one must call to schedule most of these things, one...

Annoying Thing About Cancer #37

Paperwork.  There is a lot of paperwork associated with cancer.  I’m seeing a lot of new doctors and every one of them has about 6 pages worth of forms to fill out that cover everything from my height and weight to my family’s medical history back to the...

Beauty School Dropout

I met with the surgeon today, finally.  For the purposes of this discussion we’ll call him Dr. Frenchy, partly because he’s French and partly because it makes me think of Didi Conn in “Grease.”  He doesn’t remind me of Didi Conn in...

Ties that Binder

I’m a bit of a control freak.  Okay, maybe “bit of a” is a bit of an understatement.  Yes, someone apparently gave me OCD for my birthday a few years ago because I’m really big on the whole organization concept. I figured out why about two...