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Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: Algunas Palabras para los Graduados First, she arranges the tables to form a long rectangle in the center of the conference room. Then she places the orange upholstered chairs around the perimeter, three on each side, two at each end. Ten seats. That should be enough to hold the group,...
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: Llame a su Enfermera Call...your...nurse. The mechanical voice coming out of the rapid infuser wakes me from a drugged sleep with a start. Where am I? At first, I’m not sure. The room is pitch black except for a small bit of light seeping in from the hallway....
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer; Mutación Deletérea Deleterious. Such a musical five syllable word. I love language that comes in every size, shape and sort of sound byte and do believe that this is one of those words that I could almost sing. I tentatively say it aloud: deleterious. Such a lilting...
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: En el Nombre de lo Rosado I’m at the neighborhood Acme, standing in the produce aisle, reaching for some shiny red MacIntosh apples, when I hear a female voice behind me: Remind all the women in your life to get a mammogram... Startled, I drop the fruit into my...
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: No es Solo el Rompecabezas It’s a puzzle – a 750-piece jigsaw puzzle – spread out on a card table in the far corner of the waiting room, right next to the television. Rumor has it that one of the nurses picked up the jigsaw puzzle at her neighborhood Dollar...
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: Pensamiento Mágico I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. -Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking (Random House, 2006) If you're a cancer survivor like me, you just might be...
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: Mi vampiro y Yo She holds the envelope tightly in her hand. The words Pre-admission Testing are block printed across the front in black ink. Inside there’s a form already filled out with her name and date of birth along with a long list of incomprehensible...
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: Chequeo de Seis Meses My six month check-up is almost over. And so far it’s been business as usual. I’ve been weighed and measured. A nurse has checked my blood pressure. We’ve been through the “are-there-any-lumps-bumps-or-bruises” routine....
Saludos de la Tierra del Cáncer: Esto es una prueba… In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. -Tom Bodett I am laying flat on my back in a dimly lit room, naked and draped from the waist down. My knees are spread apart. There...
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