Tag "Cancer"

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THE POINT OF NO RETURN

My father died. After a two-year-long battle with cancer, He lost. In the period when He fought this illness, right after He was diagnosed, prayers abounded. My family prayed. Relatives

Series (Non-Fiction) 6 Comments

THE NEW NORMAL (Rebrand in Progress)

Buzzzzzzz…..buzzzz….click-clack… Stuck again! I tried to stifle a giggle as the barber wrestled his clipper from the jaws of my hair. This was the third time in the last five

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THE NEW NORMAL (Happy Week, Happy Life)

Coffee. I got a whiff of it as I walked through the front doors of the LUTH Cancer Centre. I glanced to my left and noticed there was a table

The Happenings 2 Comments

‘Black Panther’ Star Chadwick Boseman Dies, Succumbs To Cancer At 43

Chadwick Boseman, who was the star of the enormously successful Marvel film Black Panther, has died of colon cancer at age 43. He kept his diagnosis and four-year struggle against

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THE NEW NORMAL (Starting Line)

“Urgh…” It was a month after radiotherapy – March 2020. I was standing in front of a full length mirror at home, inspecting the damage caused by the steroids I

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THE NEW NORMAL (New Life, New Me)

It touched me, my chest. I am on the ground. “How did I get here?” I look down and I see there is a stain where it touched me. It’s

The Happenings 18 Comments

Bestselling Novelist Jackie Collins Dies at 77

It’s a dark day in Hollywood… and in bookstores everywhere. Bestselling author Jackie Collins died of breast cancer on Saturday, Sept. 19. She was 77. “It is with tremendous sadness

The Happenings 34 Comments

Boy Next Door’s Ryan Guzman Strips for Cancer Research

I just love it when celebrities attempt to get us to focus on certain grave issues by getting naked, just as I’m focusing on actor Ryan Guzman and all the