Residual

I remember telling people after Addy's first month of cancer treatment that she was in remission. To most people remission sounds like a magical reversal from sick back to healthy. You had cancer. You are now in remission. Everything is fine. But remission is an early step in a progression that can last a very long time. It is not an end result. It divides terminal from treatable, not healthy from sick. It may even define…

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Tinged with Guilt

We took a vacation. Nothing major, but we had to get away. We did it in the safest way we could figure. We took our camping trailer and headed to the Oregon Coast. We brought our own food to reduce the need to interact with people indoors once we got to our destination. We spent a lot of time playing on the beach and hiking. It was vacation hermit-crab-style. We did one indoor thing; we watched…

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