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Joan Didion
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February 2021
Lung Cancer Began In A Blur | Feb 14, 2021
February 14, 2021
Iced Out | Feb 15 2021
February 15, 2021
I’ve Decided I DON’T Have Lung Cancer | Feb 16 2021
February 17, 2021
A New User Name | Feb 2021
February 18, 2021
A Notebook Is a Space I Keep | Feb 20 2021
February 20, 2021
By This Time Tomorrow | Feb 21 2021
February 22, 2021
Current Diagnosis: This is a Big Fucking Deal | Feb 22 2021
February 22, 2021
Two Down, One to Go | Feb 23 2021
February 24, 2021
Deep and Dirty Into the Airways | Feb 24 2021
February 24, 2021
Skewed
February 26, 2021
At the Coast
February 28, 2021
March 2021
A Brain Is A Beautiful Thing
March 3, 2021
What Matters?
March 5, 2021
Ya Can’t Make Me Feel Better By Saying “We don’t know anything for sure”
March 8, 2021
An Eye In the Storm
March 11, 2021
‘Bout to Get Real
March 15, 2021
What We Learned
March 16, 2021
Introducing Dr. Oncology
March 19, 2021
Whaddya Mean, I Have Lung Cancer?
March 24, 2021
Hello, Dr. Radiology | Mar 25 2021
March 25, 2021
When Nothing Is All You Can Do
March 27, 2021
Dates on the Calendar
March 30, 2021
April 2021
A Nice Day for A Cancer Treatment
April 2, 2021
P. S. An Aspect of Treatment So Horrifying I Can Barely Speak of It
April 2, 2021
Glossary of Medical Terms
April 4, 2021
There’s No Routine In Cancer Land | Apr 2021
April 7, 2021
Rubber, Meet Road | Apr 9 2021
April 9, 2021
Kind of a Hard Day | Apr 10 2021
April 10, 2021
Chemo #2: Done & Dusted
April 14, 2021
Have a Little Cheese with That Whine
April 17, 2021
Chemo, Week 3: Done & Dusted
April 20, 2021
Let’s Cut to the Chase
April 24, 2021
Introducing the Mack Truck Scale of Misery| Apr 27 2021
April 27, 2021
May 2021
Just Another Day at the Copa Cabana
May 1, 2021
Chemo Week 5, Done and Dusted
May 4, 2021
Friday Is Dr. Radiation Day
May 8, 2021
“We Beat You Up Pretty Good”
May 11, 2021
“I Can Make You Poop” and Other Kinds of Celebration
May 13, 2021
They Warned Me
May 17, 2021
A Sobering Week (Under My Bed) (Only Kidding)
May 22, 2021
New Day, Ugly Ugly Truths
May 23, 2021
Switching On the Immune System
May 27, 2021
June 2021
Shouldering New Realities
June 3, 2021
On A Road to Somewhere
June 12, 2021
Welcome to the Meteor Field 6/14/21
June 14, 2021
Dr. Radiology and the Sidekicks
June 18, 2021
Dr. Oncology Is Not Here to Play
June 24, 2021
My Biggest Accomplishment
June 30, 2021
July 2021
Goldilocks and the Broken Record | Jul 8 2021
July 8, 2021
Ground Glass | Jul 13 2021
July 14, 2021
Pneumonitis and the New Normal
July 20, 2021
A Quick Check-In as the Pneumonitis Subsides | Jul 27 2022
July 27, 2021
August 2021
Is It An Asthma Flare? Pneumonitis? Who Knows | Aug 4 2021
August 4, 2021
Plate Tectonics and Making the New Normal
August 8, 2021
Ha! I KNEW Exercise Cured Everything!
August 18, 2021
The Worst-Case Scenario, Courtesy of My Imagination
August 24, 2021
September 2021
Seven Months In and Looking For The Pony
September 6, 2021
Who Invited the Blood Clot?
September 10, 2021
Of Embolisms, Ego, and Moving Forward
September 17, 2021
Lung Cancer for the Long Haul
September 22, 2021
How to Be Your Own Cancer Advocate
September 28, 2021
October 2021
Lung Cancer Draws Some Mean Lines
October 12, 2021
Gratitude Through Gritted Teeth
October 19, 2021
Lung Cancer and Its Little Dramas
October 25, 2021
November 2021
The View from Larch Mountain
November 1, 2021
My Six-Month Date with Dr. Radiology
November 4, 2021
A Visit with Dr. Lungs
November 16, 2021
Mama NEVER Said There’d Be Days Like This | Nov 19 2022
November 19, 2021
The Humbling (& Hilarious) Road From Lung Cancer to Fitness | Nov 24 2021
November 24, 2021
December 2021
Is Lung Cancer Hiding In Your Basement? | Dec 2021
December 3, 2021
10 mg. & My Adrenal Glands Don’t Wanna Leave the Beach| Dec 4 2021
December 4, 2021
Directions to the Hope Store | Dec 12 2021
December 12, 2021
New Stages in Lung Cancer? Not Today | Dec 12 2021
December 16, 2021
Best Christmas Present Ever | Dec 26 2021
December 26, 2021
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