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    Tiny Awful Moments

    by Lisa February 11, 2014
    February 11, 2014

    Mike’s hair started to fall out last Tuesday, and the next day we went to visit a cousin with clippers and she did the close-crop honors. Now Mike has a …

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    Chemotherapy For Dummies: What does BEP do?

    by Lisa February 4, 2014
    February 4, 2014

    Since Mike’s testicular cancer diagnosis, I’ve learnt all sorts of new words – words like seminoma, bleomycin, etopiside, cisplatin, and nadir. Nadir. Every time I hear that I picture somewhere …

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    Memorable Moments In The Pressures Of The Present

    by Lisa January 30, 2014
    January 30, 2014

     A couple of years ago now, I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. Following the great success of his memoir Blue Like Jazz , Miller slumped …

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    Love Letters on our “Cancerversary”

    by Lisa January 24, 2014
    January 24, 2014

      Dear Lisa, Five years ago today we stood in front of family and friends and we vowed to share with each other life’s joys and sorrows, pleasures and pains …

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    A note from the messy middle

    by Lisa January 22, 2014
    January 22, 2014

    I walked into the kitchen last night to find Mike lying on the floor clutching his foot, a pool of blood spreading rapidly beneath him. “Go get gloves,” Mike said. …

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    Our not-so-happy New Years news… Mike has cancer

    by Lisa December 31, 2013
    December 31, 2013

    Happy New Years!! So. Two days ago we learned Mike has testicular cancer. Amazing, isn’t it, how your life can change on a dime as the result of two words? …

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