Archives: October 2004

Surviving Breast Cancer

However gently a physician informs a woman of test results that indicate the presence of breast cancer cells, she will hear a stark pronouncement: “You have breast cancer.” The fear of breast cancer is a gut-wrenching emotion. “Every woman thinks she is alone with this,” says Dr. Eric Bonnem, an oncologist affiliated with Portsmouth Regional Hospital. He encourages his patients…

Rocks that speak

In my top dresser drawer — you know, the one that collects stuff like tie tacks and Chucky Cheese tokens and old campaign buttons — is a hunk of sandstone. It’s the sort of thing that will puzzle my survivors some day when they are cleaning out my stuff. “Why in the world did he keep this?” For the record,…